{"id":4292,"date":"2014-05-15T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2014-05-15T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:36:04","slug":"the-adventures-of-tintin-in-pop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/05\/15\/the-adventures-of-tintin-in-pop-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of Tintin in Pop-up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Tintin is myself.\u00a0 He reflects the best and brightest in me: he is my successful double…Tintin has accomplished many things on my behalf.” -Herg\u00e9<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tintin who was created by Herg\u00e9, a pen name of Georges Prosper Remi, is known to many as the reporter turned detective whose stories chronicle his adventures chasing various villans and criminals throughout the world.\u00a0 Tintin first appeared in the 1929 pages of Le Petit Vingti\u00e8me<\/em>, a children’s supplement to Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tintin’s story, serialized over a period of months in\u00a0the paper, was set in the Soviet Union much to the displeasure of\u00a0Herg\u00e9.\u00a0 Abb\u00e9 Norbert Wallez, who was the editor of the paper and a vocal fascist, ordered Herg\u00e9 to set the initial series in the Soviet Union so that\u00a0Tintin in the Land of the Soviets<\/a><\/em> became a kind of anti-socialist propaganda for children.\u00a0 In keeping with the deeply conservative tenor of the paper\u00a0Herg\u00e9 wrote several more Tintin series that took place in the Congo and America, which though popular at the time, would most likely be considered paternalistic and anti-capitalist by today’s standards.<\/p>\n

Eventually Herg\u00e9 sent Tintin on more escapist adventures including Le Temple du Soleil<\/em> or Prisoners of the Sun.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In this story Tintin and Captain Haddock attempt to resuce the kidnapped Professor Calculus and become prisoners of a lost Incan civilization.\u00a0 Widener has copies of many of the stories in both French and English including Le Temple du soleil<\/a>.\u00a0 Tintin was so popular that Herg\u00e9 entered into a partnership wtih American publisher Casterman Hallmark to produce a series of pop-up books known as “Pop Hop.”\u00a0 The books are an abridged version of the stories and use these fabulous pop-up illustrations to show the reader about the perilous circumstances of our trusty hero and his sidekicks, including Snowy the fox terrier.<\/p>\n

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We can also get a glimpse of Captain Haddock as the comic relief.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>The popularity of Tintin is still quite clear today with the visibility of the character in popular culture, various films, merchandising, and even the Mus\u00e9e Herg\u00e9<\/a> which features rotating exhibits of Tintin materials.\u00a0 To find more Tintin pop-ups in Widener’s collection look here:<\/p>\n

Le temple du soleil<\/a> \/ Herg\u00e9. Tournai ; Paris : Casterman, c1970.<\/p>\n

Le tresor de Rackham le Rouge<\/a> \/ Herg\u00e9. Tournai ; Paris : Casterman, c1970.<\/p>\n

L’ile noire<\/a> \/ Herg\u00e9. Tournai ; Paris : Casterman, c1970.<\/p>\n

Le sceptre d’ottokar<\/a> \/ Herg\u00e9. Tournai ; Paris : Casterman, c1971.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Tintin is myself.\u00a0 He reflects the best and brightest in me: he is my successful double…Tintin has accomplished many things on my behalf.” -Herg\u00e9 Tintin who was created by Herg\u00e9, a pen name of Georges Prosper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72741],"tags":[40,119923,72720,119924,119922],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widener-library","tag-books","tag-herge","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-pop-ups","tag-tintin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-17e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}