An auction is currently taking place in Paris where original drawings by some of the leading French and Belgian comic artists are up for grabs.
Yesterday, a drawing by Herge
got sold for 2.5 million euros!It was an inside cover for the black & white albums published between the 1930s and 1950s.
It can be seen at web site of the auctioner Artcurial.
There are a lot of other drawings here too, including sketches for pages for
"Tibet" and
"Flight 714" and also drawings of scenes from the albums scene from a different angle
such as Tintin being led away by the guards after gatecrashing the party in "Ottokar's Sceptre".
Some "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" books, signed "Tintin & Milou", sold for around 34,000 euros.
