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I just came across a listing for Tintin and I, a documentary about the comic book and its creator. It airs tomorrow night on PBS at 10 p.m.
I'm not sure it's meant for kids, airing at such a late hour, but there is also an educator guide for the program at PBS. I didn't know Tintin began as a comic strip in a Catholic newspaper and was meant to teach political lessons!
Just thought I'd mention it as I suspect there are some Tintin enthusiasts here! 
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Dawn wrote:
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No I didn't - that's interesting - AND WE LOVE TINTIN DOWN HERE!! If any 'comic' book stuck in my mind from my own childhood, it was Tintin. They were the first books that I wanted to expose my children to, quite truthfully - and it is so lovely to see you mention him Dawn. Such a shame we are not over there to see the documentary!
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While I think of it, children REALLY learn alot about different cultures/countries/geography/interesting, unusual facts from these books, it is amazing what they will quote to me from Tintin if we are discussing a total different subject.
It will be like, "Do you remember Mum in Tintin, that......." and it might be something to do with the geography of South America, or about the fact that the Chinese use to bind their girl's feet and on and on it goes. The understanding of weightlessness in space is re-enforced on little minds because of Captain Haddock and his antics with a whisky bubble.  
(Now I'm really laughing..I just asked my dh, "What was it that Captain Haddock drank? Rum, brandy, what?" So I would quote it right. Oldest ds piped up in a split second, "WHISKY!!!"..they remember everything!) 
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TinTine is FULL of political and even anti racism comments.
We all love TinTin here - I hope the documentary comes to Australia.
I rmember when Jonathon was 3. We were waiting outside a chemist for dh and he grabbed my arm - "Quick! Captain Haddock just walked into the chemist."
It *was a Captain Haddock lookalike - and because his older brothers used to read Tintin to him, the world of Tintin was his real world!
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Thanks for the heads up! I am definitely taping it. My kids LOVE TinTin!!!!
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Head's up -- the documentary is NOT geared to kids. (It appears that my local station is airing it anyway. Rats.) Here is a New York Times review:
July 11, 2006
TV Review | 'Tintin and I'
Hergé, Mild-Mannered Father of the Adventurous Tintin
By ANITA GATES
In the documentary "Tintin and I," it isn't entirely clear who the "I" is. It could be Numa Sadoul, a young Belgian student who interviewed Hergé, the creator of the Tintin comics, at length in the 1970's. More likely, it is Hergé himself, who tells the story of his life and his internationally beloved creation in those interviews. But what the film, a "P.O.V." special to be shown on Tuesday night, needs is more Tintin.
European children * and in recent years, Americans too * know the character well. Created in 1929, Tintin is an idealistic, boyish reporter and explorer who has fantastic adventures traveling the globe with his plucky white terrier, Milou (a name translated into English, strangely, as Snowy), at his side.
Anders Ostergaard, the filmmaker, shows the character, with his trademark peaked blond hair, and various minor figures, like the blustery Captain Haddock and the diva Bianca Castafiore, often enough. But their appearances don't convey what has made Tintin so popular (23 books, which have sold as many as 100 million copies total, in dozens of languages). Viewers who are only vaguely aware of the character may come away unconvinced that Tintin was anything special.
What they will know is that Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi, was something of a tortured soul. Mr. Remi, who describes his Roman Catholic childhood in Belgium as "gray and mediocre," was a young man in the advertising department of Le Vingtième Siècle, a right-wing newspaper in Brussels, when his boss asked him to create a comic strip.
And although Mr. Remi rarely left his desk, much less his native country, he made Tintin a world traveler, an observer of cultures that his creator had never known firsthand. Some of the early works, like "Tintin au Congo," were unabashedly racist. Mr. Ostergaard and the film conclude that Mr. Remi wasn't particularly racist, even then; he was just "a bit of a sponge," absorbing whatever attitudes were prevalent at the time. (The father of Mr. Sadoul, the interviewer, was a high-ranking official in what was then the Belgian Congo.)
The strip quickly became political, though. Tintin encountered a villainous dictator named Müsstler, which was surprising, since Mr. Remi's mentor at the newspaper was a fan of both Mussolini and Hitler. After the Nazis invaded Belgium in 1940, they closed down the paper. Mr. Remi moved on to the Brussels daily Le Soir, but the Nazis assumed control of it, and when the war ended, he was arrested as a Nazi sympathizer.
"It was seen as treason" to have worked for Le Soir, Mr. Remi says, arguing that no one seemed to feel that way about bus drivers and waiters who also went to work every day and collected their salaries while the city was occupied.
"Tintin and I" eventually becomes a psychological portrait, as Mr. Remi talks about his nightmares, his experiences with psychiatry and the emotional difficulties that he endured in deciding to leave his first wife and remarry.
The documentary should be a treat for avid Tintin fans, who come to it with a thorough appreciation of the character and his adventures. Mr. Remi's experiences come to life with his own voice, historical black-and-white film (including a 1981 reunion with Chang Chong-jen, the Chinese artist on whom his character Chang was based) and what appear to be home movies of Mr. Remi and his wives. (He never had children.)
Mr. Remi died of leukemia in 1983. He was 75.
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I just read in Entertainment Weekly (pure twaddle,I know, but fun  ) that they are making a series of Tintin movies - directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson (of LOTR fame).
Here's more information. (I can't vouch for that link and apologize if it is inappropriate in anyway.)
Just knew there were Tintin fans here and wanted to give you all a heads up.
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Yes, we heard about it here too - we cut the article out of our paper, very exciting indeed! 
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Thanks for letting us know, Dawn!
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