From 1929 to 1982, Tintin entertained us with his adventures as he traveled across the world, traversing danger and mystery with aplomb. Tonight, PBS' P.O.V. premiers a documentary of Tintin and its creator, Hergé. It's not playing here until the 20th, sadly, but maybe I can catch the Oregon broadcast somehow. Click here to check your local showtimes.
Both character and creator were unambiguous. Tintin was literally and emblematically a Boy Scout who always lived up to the Boy Scout code, no matter how dire, dark, strange or adult the situation. Tintin was the ideal with which Hergé totally identified. But, as revealed in Anders Østergaard's "Tintin and I," it was the treacherous and uncertain world around Tintin into which Hergé poured the reality of his own life. Based on 14 hours of audio interviews recorded in 1971 — heard here for the first time — "Tintin and I" shows that Hergé, while trying in life to live up to the idealized Tintin, ended up creating in art a powerful graphic record of the 20th century's tortured history.
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You know, I should have guess with how awesome you are and all, that you would know about Tintin. I was in love with Tintin when I was a little girl. I used to write him letters and play pretend that he was having adventures with me in the backyard (which was really an ocean off the coast of Asia) and rescuing me, or being rescued in the acres of woods near my home (which was really, most often, the Congo or an archeological dig)… LONG LIVE TINTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!