"Traduites dans une soixantaine de langues, les aventures du reporter à la houppette, né il y a 76 ans, ont été éditées à plus de 200 millions d'exemplaires."

http://actu.voila.fr/Depeche/ext--francais--ftmms--culture/050714071117.ow12ki64.html

I'm happy to say that I read my first Tintins in French (nice tattered editions - for all I know they may still be moulderring in the lovely librabry at Pondicherry).

I'm sure there is more than one Tintin fan in at least sixty countries in the world.

Some links for  Tintin fans:

http://www.tintinologist.org/

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/books/

Where you can find: Different Language Editions of Tintin

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/books/lang01.html

May I ask those of you who have read Tintin comics which is their favourite?

Tibet was in the news here the other day as the Tibetan Beauty Queen at a pageant here had to withdraw due to political pressure. Tintin had to face some too: http://www.tibetanliberation.org/tintin.html

Also nice reading: http://www.spiderbomb.com/burgundy/Tintin/tintinengpub.html

"Beyond coping with difficult idiomatic expressions, some translators have encountered insurmountable cultural problems. Hergé was particularly amused by the Japanese difficulty with Dupont and Dupond (Thomson and Thompson). The Tokyo publisher indicated that such a pair of blunderers in positions of public responsibility would have committed hari kari long ago. "

Happy Tintin reading!

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article5485647.ece

Tintin, the eternal boy reporter, marks his 80th birthday today but, for France, the celebrations have been soured by a perfidious claim from across the Channel that the comic strip hero is gay.

An article by Matthew Parris, The Times columnist, on Tintin’s “obvious” homosexuality (Of course Tintin's gay. Ask Snowy) has triggered an outcry in the media and on the internet.

(Another thread exclusively dedicated to Tintin: Good news from Belgium!)

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Probably as part of the Tintin festival in Poland and as a continuation of Post #118240, "self styled ‘controversial’ member of parliament for the ruling Civic Platform party, Janusz Palikot, has just appealed on his blog for former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to declare whether or not he is gay": http://beatroot.blogspot.com/2009/01/jaroslaw-or-jaroslawa.html