Tintin's adventures have been translated in so many languages, I was curious to know if guys about my age (53) (or any other age), were reading Tintin's albums in English or any language other than french, when they were kids. This link sparked my curiosity.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcse5m ... shortfilms

I think that they have had a great idea to use the motion capture process to make the movie. Two movies with real actors were made in the sixties and well, they were OK for the time, but now, the digital process should fit the bill more appropriately.
I still got my collection of Tintin's albums and I still read a few of them every year. Along with more serious reading like George Carlin's "Brain dropings".
I asked the question in the french connection forum, but as I said, I was curious to know about you guys.
Claude.

I'm 29 and I remember reading Tintin all the time when I was a kid. Asterix too!

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I still have a few, but sadly my original collection which I had from the early 60's were destroyed when they were in storage in New Haven CT in 93. There was a flood from a ruptured pipe, I received a letter a month after the incident. Needless to say trash bags were the only remedy for everything.

But my aunt was visiting stateside from Monaco this past summer and she said, " Oh in my storage, I still have a few Tintin et Milou which were passed on to your cousins after you and would you like them still, they are a bit dog-eared "

So a few I have not seen in decades will be returning. I will pass them on of course.

There is a reason why on Herge's Tintin covers there is a quote which states.

" Pour Les Jeunes de 7 a 77 ans " " For the Young from 7 to 77 years "....

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i remember rin tintin very well

Hi Claude: what are you kidding?! Lads my age in Britain grew up on Tintin! They were translated into English by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner and they did a very fine job indeed finding an English "voice" for the books - so successfully that when I was a nipper I had no idea they were Belgian and not British.

My dad bought me my first Tintin book in 1966 and I've been reading them ever since in multiple editions and languages:



They were so successful in English that Hergé came to Britain several times in the '50s and '60s to work with the translators and publisher here. The one you see open in that picture is The Black Island, which takes place substantially in England and Scotland. It was originally published in French in 1937 but the publisher here felt the drawings were too anachronistic for a local audience so Hergé agreed to redraw the entire book to make it more accurate and bring it up to date. I believe that is the first one I ever had, as soon as it came out here in 1966.

Here's a nice interview with Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner about working with Hergé on the English language versions:

http://www.tintinologist.org/articles/m ... rview.html

As it happens, Michael Turner only died in 2009: my dad knew him a bit and went to his funeral.

My geekery doesn't end with shelfloads of the books themselves. I'm afraid I also have plenty of collectable stuff as well:



And:



Those three cardboard badges top left were made by me when I was a kid. Nobody had thought of selling the enamel ones yet at that stage so a lad had to work it out for himself...

To the best of my knowledge Tintin is just about unknown in North America, is that right? Never met an American who knew who Tintin is (till Mr Xhefri on this very Forum) - they think it's a dog in the movies or something. Oh dear oh dear.

But maybe Tintin is in Canada in French?

Cheers - C

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tintin is in canada i remember watching it in english not too long ago

Oh, I forgot to mention; here in London (like many other European cities) we also have a Tintin shop:



In fact, many years ago there was a time when we had two seperate competing Tintin shops, but those heady days are long gone. The remaining one is in Floral Street, Covent Garden in the centre of London for anyone who's visiting.

http://www.thetintinshop.uk.com/acatalog/

I'm near there most weeks. Time I popped in again!

Cheers - C

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Oh Thank's Ceri..... Torture Me.....

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Les Bachibouzouks.
Tintin in Fenderland.
Les Mille Sabords.
Claude.

Thanks so much for the links and the pictures Ceri. We have a specialized library here where one can find Tintin's albums in english and in spanish now. But when I was a kid it was all in french.
Claude.

There's many others too.

Tintin shop in Bruges:



In Singapore:



In Holland:



In Tokyo:



And of course in Brussels:



Amongst others.

Obviously, they're kind of nuts for Tintin in Belgium:



Cheers - C

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I've seen 'em in Arabic too, amongst many other languages. There's scenes in Land of Black Gold and Cigars of the Pharaoh you might think it would be sort of tricky to translate into Arabic. 'Fraid I can't judge what sort of a job they did with that...

Cheers Claude - C

PS: should I stop now, before I begin to look like a total obsessive? Or is it too late?

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Obsessive and compulsive. Nothing wrong with that, unless it becomes TGAS Tintin gear acquisition syndrome. Thanks again for all the pics.
Claude.

Herges adventures of Tintin
Taking us on a journey back in time Claude, think it was a rush home from school to watch Tintin or it would be a full series during holidays first thing in the mornings ah the memories, bit like Ceri typically English I thought also, never associated bowler hatted gents ( Thomson twins) from Belgium, (thats one related Band name ddeaton 107), and it was a cartoon, you couldn't tell if it was dubbed into english unlike some others....Hiedi, Belle and Sebastien, White Horses to name a few, cracking kids programmes from way back dubbed into English but with a foreign accent, sure it was the same guy doing grandad voice over in them all, seemed that way at the time.