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Tintin: Why do characters not seem to age?

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Aldora
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#21 · Posted: 9 Mar 2005 01:58
I always thought of it that one book ended and the next adventure started only a week or so after.
Note how Destination Moon started right after Land of the Black Gold (at least, I think it did from memory).
When I found out that Hergé wrote the books over a series of years, it didn't change my view.
The fact that Tintin in Congo (I heaven't read Tintin in the Land of the Soviets) looked very different to Tintin and the Picaros, was for the simple reason that Hergé's art skills were improving over the years.
But that could just be me...?
edcharlesadams
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#22 · Posted: 9 Mar 2005 14:00
Destination Moon started right after Land of the Black Gold (at least, I think it did from memory)

Almost... there was a gap of five weeks, but this was one of the lesser gaps between stories in Tintin magazine.

Ed
Karaboudjan
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#23 · Posted: 13 Mar 2005 21:53
But does time in the Tintinverse necessarily reflect/echo real time?
rastapopoulos
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#24 · Posted: 14 Mar 2005 15:54
But does time in the Tintinverse necessarily reflect/echo real time?

Yeah! What about when Black Island gets updated and thrown into the future, with contemporary (to the Sixties) fire engines and suchlike?
dreamgirl
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#25 · Posted: 7 Jul 2012 09:35
Tintin does age a little...
Look at the difference between Cigars of the Pharaoh and Tintin and the Picaros...
He seems a bit adult looking in Picaros...
TintinRebecka
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#26 · Posted: 7 Jul 2012 16:07
Hergé said in an interview with Jacques Chancel, that Tintin was 14 years old at the beginning, and 17 at the end... ;-)

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