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Golden Globes: Steven Spielberg says ‘Tintin’ is an animated ‘buddy movie’

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Its no surprise to me, no surprise at all. Sir Peter Jackson’s The Adventures of Tintin has won the best animated film award at the Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles. Directed by Spielberg and produced by Sir Peter and his digital effects company Weta Digital  in New Zealand.  The movie the first of a [...]

Comic Book Shops, Rue Dante, Paris.

Home to many comic shops

Well, l was somewhere on a corner of Boulevard St Michel and lost, I was heading for Rue Dante a comic book precinct in the Latin quarter of Paris. I couldn’t find it. I was only a block away, apparently, when I caught sight of a scruffy little shop, down Serpente called Aaapoum Bapoum. Foot [...]

Tintin creator, Hergé gets his own museum.

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It was a wet Sunday, I turned south and drove towards Louvain-la-Neuve and the museum, Musee Hergé designed as a focal point for one of the best loved creators of the twentieth century. It’s a long way. I can’t imagine why the museum is located way out here. What were they thinking I keep thinking, [...]

The Adventures Of John Difool. A brief rundown.

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One of my favourite comic book series is Une aventure de John Difool. This is the source that director Luc Besson borrowed heavily from to make one of my also favourite (coincidently) movies The Fifth Element. One of the creators of John Difool and the L’Incal series was Jodorowsky, a great visual director took the [...]