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Tintin, as a globe-trotting reporter, will no doubt be chuffed to bits to have made it onto the cover of Time magazine.
This is a great accolade in its own right, and is seen as quite an honour; Tintin is apparently the first Belgian to be deemed famous enough for the position, and in fact is doubly honoured, as he appears twice!

Hmmmmm... The drawing of Tintin does not look very Hergé-like to me. What's the source?

Very interesting cover. But I agree that the drawing doesn't look quite like Hergé's style.

Very cool. The drawing of Tintin is rather poor though and definitely not Hergé-ian.

The cover illustration is by graphic-artist Josh Cochran.

The article isn't the best, to be honest - but I was reading it on the bus, so need a bit more time to digest it properly.

Poor Audrey..., she no longer matters it seems... :-( (actually, a quick search finds half-a-dozen covers with Belgian subjects).
The article itself isn't too bad for a mass-market publication and puff for a major flm - quotes from all the right people and at least it doesn't swallow all the Hergé-myths without putting the other side.
I read it in the shop though so don't hold me to that...

George

Good catch - it shows it pays not to believe the hype...! :-)

I've got my doubts about some of it; Hergé's father worked for a drapery/ clothing firm, not a confectioner, as far as I recall - they have mistranslated or misunderstood the meaning of the French maison de confection.
Also his contention that Tintin has "never been to Hollywood before now" is just wrong.
If they are using "Hollywood" generially to mean "the film industry", then obviously there are big-screen adaptations before this; if specifcally the American film-industry, well that too has been touched upon.
Hergé wanted Disney to make screen adaptations of his books, and approached the studios by sending books and letters of introduction, asking for them to be considered. All were returned, apparently unread, as the Disney studios (like many others) didn't accept unsolicited material (this is to prevent them being sued by people claiming they sent in the idea of a plucky mouse or an irrascible duck first).
It would also have been more interesting, I feel, to look at the somewhat strange part that Larry Harmon and his Hollywood studio played in producing the early supposedly-made-in-Belgium Belvision cartoon serials, rather than maintaining that it didn't happen.