Tintin & dog Snowy are a big deal in Europe, and the far flung corners of the world. Created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. Starting as a comic strip, then a magazine, finally a series of 23 albums(books), each showing Tintin & Snowy having adventures in a different country. Before TV these adventures taught kids(and parents) about different cultures and customs.
$1,230,000.00
Experts claim Hergé hit his stride in the 5th book, The Blue Lotus, and it’s a masterpiece. This is the original art panel for the third of five single-page drawings included as color plates, the first color elements in a Tintin book, in the first edition of The Blue Lotus, published in 1936 by Casterman. Guess that’s why it sold for $1.23 million. It’s not a record though, the original cover art of Tintin in America sold or $1.6 million, and a double page of Tintin and Snowy vignettes sold for $3,434,908.
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10-17-2015, 01:05 AM
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