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Old (and maybe not noteworthy for most of you) news: Tintin et l'Alph-Art has been published in Finnish by Otava, with the title Tintti ja aakkostaide.

Nowhere near as good as the Casterman French edition (the one with contains two "books", one for the dialogue and one for the drawings). This one is published in the normal 62-page, soft cover format. Few observations:

-It contains mostly text, and most of the drawings are rather small (most sketched pages are printed in one quarter of a page-size, too small imo)
-Text works exceptionally well in Finnish (which was expected, the translation is made my the same man, Heikki Kaukoranta, as the other titles)
-On top of the story there´s few nice additions: short foreword (from the translator?) and more importantly:

notes by Hergé:

-9 pages of sketches and notes by Hergé himself, found from the archives recently (probably published elsewhere previously?)
-these contain some ideas Hergé was playing with: apparently he was considering making the album about the war against drugs: there are ideas about Haddock turning into a hippie and using drugs (as he can´t enjoy whisky anymore, due to medicine invented by Tournesol)
-Endaddine Akass is definitely Rastapopoulos according to these notes
-lots of familiar characters were due to appear (Krollspell, Ben Kalish Ezab) and Ramo Nash seems to be the link between art forgery and drug dealing.
-Few more details are included, I´ll tell you more if this is news to you.

Those notes were also in the English and french versions.

Not the most important piece of information, but maybe this one should be added to the "Different Language Editions of Tintin" -list?