Genuinely surprised that the US is the top country, Britain and France is less surprising, and there are a lot of views from countries unaccounted for. So who are you, where do you come from and how did you come to know about Tintin?
Spent an unreasonable time making Professor Calculus’ TV from The Castafiore Emerald. Here are results..
Link to the YouTube video of the model
Can read about the making of the project here
# This is an unofficial fan-made project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tintinimaginatio.
The Black Island
Think about how he's always travelling with no problem at all. He has contacts with generals and emirs and wealthy people in every country. He claims to be a journalist yet we barely see him ever write an article or collect evidence. Half the time he falls into the adventure then leverages his time to track down the villains. We never see him actually working a 9-5 job and when he's in his apartment we see him eating and reading newspapers but never working. Don't forget that at his time if you wanted to travel to all the exotic places he did you had to be very very wealthy. Tintin definitely inherited a lot of money or makes more than we think.
The Black Island
"The Calculus Affair", the version from the "Tintin" magazine.
Originally published in Tintin magazine from December 23, 1954 to February 22, 1956, the first version of The Calculus Affair appears for the very first time in album format in an exceptional edition. Page after page, this tense espionage story, set on the border between Syldavia and Borduria, allows Hergé to display the full extent of his narrative and graphic mastery.
As he embarked on The Calculus Affair , Hergé reorganized his working methods. In offices separate from his home, the creator of Tintin had just set up Studios Hergé, a small team capable of assisting him with the creation of the backgrounds and the coloring. Marked by the context of the Cold War and the brain drain, this new adventure brilliantly employs the tropes of the spy story, without neglecting the farcical twists that have characterized The Adventures of Tintin since their inception.
This original version presents numerous variations compared to the final edition, notably its last twenty pages laid out in landscape format. These are presented vertically on a single page, in a slightly reduced size, to improve readability and reading comfort. Carefully restored from the artist's archives, all the pages are brought together here for the first time in their entirety, accompanied by a richly illustrated historical dossier retracing the behind-the-scenes story of the creation of the most Hitchcockian adventure ever produced by Hergé.
After a cancelled sale in the fall of 2025, The Calculus Affair in its Tintin magazine version will be available from October 21st.