Tintin and Alph-Art
Original French title
Tintin et l'Alph-Art
Plot
Bianca Castafiore has become a follower of Endaddine Akass, a guru with rich admirers. Meanwhile Captain Haddock buys a piece of Alph-Art, a fashionable new art made of perspex letters. When the Brussels gallery owner Henri Fourcart dies in a car crash before he can meet Tintin, Tintin suspects murder. The trail leads to Akass's villa on the Italian island of Ischia, and to a ring of art forgers. (Hergé died before finishing the story.)
Publication history
Sketches of Tintin's 24th and unfinished adventure - first published in book form in 1986.
English editions
- 1990 - Sundancer (London). Black and white (some colour). 96p. 31cm. Hardback. ISBN: 0951279920. Note: English text in booklet attached to the inside of the front cover.
- 2004 - Egmont Books (London). Title: Tintin's last adventure: Tintin and alph-art. 62p. Hardback. ISBN: 1405214481.
Trivia
Martine Vandezande's surname may have been taken from a publisher that produced a Tintin calendar in 1947, "l'imprimerie Vandezande". [RW. Source: Herge: Chronologie d'une Oeuvre volume 5.]
Title in other languages
- Catalan - Tintin i L'art-alfa
- Chinese - 丁丁和字母艺术 Ding Ding he zimu yishu
- Danish - Tintin og alfabetkunsten
- Dutch - Kuifje en de Alpha-kunst
- German - Tim und die Alpha-kunst
- Indonesian - Tintin dan Alph-Art [Gramedia edition. No Indira edition available.]
- Japanese - タンタンとアルファアート Tintin to Alpha Art
- Portuguese - Tintin e Alph-art
- Spanish - Tintin y el Arte Alfa
- Swedish - Tintin och alfabetskonsten - title for the 1989 edition, which translates in English as "Tintin and the alphabet art"; Tintin och alfakonsten - title for the 2005 edition, which translates in English as: "Tintin and the Alph-Art".
Credits
Created and maintained by Irene Mar.
Contributors and sources: Richard Wainman, Gustav Gullberg, Chikahiro Masami, M. Misdianto, Syaiful Bahri, BP = Tintin and the world of Hergé by Benoît Peeters. London: Methuen, 1989.
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