List of Tintin parodies and pastiches

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In addition to the twenty-four official comic albums written by Hergé, several unofficial parodies and pastiches of The Adventures of Tintin have been published over the years by various authors. While some consist in entirely new drawings made to resemble the original art, others were created by splicing together strips from the original albums and rewriting the dialogue.

The copyright owner of the original comics, Moulinsart, has taken legal steps to stop publication of some of the unofficial material. Eric Jenot's Tintin Parodies site was closed down by Moulinsart in 2004 for displaying Tintin parodies and pastiches.^[1] Other material has remained available, for instance the anarchist/communist comic Breaking Free.^[2]

Parodies and satire

Some parodies of Tintin feature the actual Tintin characters with their original identities and personalities, some feature the original characters but with wildly modified personalities, and some simply reuse the appearance of the characters but give them completely different names and identities.

They generally fall into one of two sub-sections:

Political

• Tintin au pays de nazis ("Tintin in the Land of the Nazis"), the short and crudely drawn strip lampoons Hergé for working for a Nazi-run newspaper during the occupation. Published in September 1944.
• Communist book about Tintin growing up in a poor working class area of England
  and about how he joins the revolution.
• Tintin in Lebanon — Tintin gets drawn into Middle eastern conflicts while in Lebanon. This comic was published in National Lampoon, an American humour magazine, mocking the foreign policies of the Ronald Reagan administration.

• Yves Rodier:
  • Tintin and Alph-Art — A "completed" version of Hergé's unfinished book. Available in colour and in French and English.
  • The Lake of the Sorcerer — Tintin uncovers the mystery of a monster in a lake.
  • A Day at the Airport — Rodier planned to complete the album debuted by Hergé as soon as his own version of the Alph-Art was completed. However, due to harsh reactions from the Moulinsart Foundation, Rodier decided to leave the project, though he did produce one page from the Airport album.
  • Reporter Pigiste (Freelance Reporter) — Three-page story, made in autumn 1992, loosely based on a scenario suggested in issue No. 1027 of
    Le Petit Vingtiéme
    . The end of the story directly leads into Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
  • Tintin and the Thermozéro — This page is an inking of page 4 from a leftover project of Hergé's.
• Tintin et l'Alph-art (Tintin and Alph-art) by "
  Tintin and Alph-art
  . It is only available in black-and-white, and in French.
• Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten
  — A prose novel, not illustrated, that got Hergé's permission shortly before his death. Tintin gets bored of adventures and falls in love.
• Tintin and the Flute of the Wendigo and Tintin in Australia by Conlan.
• Teen Titans Spotlight #11, DC Comics, 1987, "The Brotherhood is Dead", written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, art by Joe Orlando
• Tum Tum and the Forged Expenses — At the height of its popularity in 1988, the Spitting Image television show produced a tie-in comic book featuring a Tintin spoof where Tum Tum, an alcoholic Fleet Street journalist, follows a false lead to a drugs-smuggling operation at a Soho S&M bar. Captain Haddock is portrayed as 'Captain Haddit', a leather-clad predatory homosexual. The Thomppson Twins (note the double p) turn up at the end of the story to arrest Tum Tum for his forged expenses claims. Snowy is renamed 'Spewy', and ends up being run over by a car. The story makes numerous references to real Tintin adventures (most notably The Blue Lotus) as well as fictional non-canonical ones (such as Tum Tum and the Cross-Eyed Vivisectionist).
• Objectif Monde (Destination World) by Didier Savard — Released in Le Monde on January 28, 1999, to celebrate Tintin's 70th birthday and the Comics Festival in Angoulême. The Hergé Foundation gave its authorization and allowed the publication of this first "official" pastiche, fully approved by Hergé's beneficiaries. The short story, 26 pages long, makes numerous references to the adventures of Tintin. The main protagonist is a naive young reporter called Wzkxy, who is embroiled in an unlikely conspiracy theory — supposedly the Tintin books contained encoded messages aimed at the USSR. It has since been reprinted in various forms, and has also been translated into English by Vlipvlop (pseudonym) in early 2006. The hero, Wzkxy, is a young reporter working in Le Monde. He looks so much like Tintin that everyone prefers to call him "Tintin" rather than "Wzkxy", a completely unpronounceable name. He identifies so much with Tintin that he imagines being accompanied by Snowy. This pseudo-Tintin thus investigates the existence of an unpublished story by Hergé whose origin dates back to Tintin in the land of the Soviets. The stories of Hergé were in fact coded messages sent to the Soviet bloc by the USA. Many characters from the adventures of Tintin appear: la Castafiore is the editor-in-chief of Le Monde, the Thompsons were faithful to their role of policemen, Calculus, etc.
• "Tim-Tim: Prisoners of the Red Planet", by Robert Sikoryak — A two-page parody of Destination Moon, about "Tim-Tim" on Mars, published in Wired magazine in July 2001.^[6]
• Tintin, Snowy, and Haddock all briefly appear in the comic Scarlet Traces, by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli.
• In
  Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha, Tintin and Bianca Castafiore both appear, in chapters 8 and 11 respectively. In his short story "Angels of Music", Bianca Castafiore is implied to be the descendant of the character Carlotta from The Phantom of the Opera
  .
• Jan Bucquoy made a pornographic parodic comic book album named La Vie Sexuelle de Tintin (The Sexual Life of Tintin). The story is set during The Castafiore Emerald, and features most of Tintin's main cast along with many returning characters engaging in sexual activities, such as Tintin and Castafiore, Haddock and Calculus, and Nestor and Irma. Many scenes depict sexual acts perceived to be unethical, with instances of bestiality (such as Snowy performing fellatio on Tintin), and series villain Rastapopoulos is shown to engage in pedophilic acts. The story also takes liberties with series canon, such as revealing Thomson to be a woman wearing a disguise. In the comics conclusion, it is revealed that the events of the story were an elaborate porn film directed by original character "Bastapoglandos", who closely resembles Rastapopoulos.
• In the film Camping Cosmos a lookalike of Tintin is one of the main characters. Despite having a different name, his quiff, outfit and little white fox terrier are obviously referencing Tintin.^[7][8]

Other

• English filmmakers Nick Donnelly and Andrew Stebulitis created a YouTube series in 2006, Teesside Tintin, which would become a viral hit in the site's early days. By 2015, the videos had collectively accumulated 25 millions views.^[9] It involved re-editing the Nelvana animated series with new audio tracks, laced with profanity and references to Middlesbrough, England, where the pair came from. It would spawn a website, Dubtoons, which would host other redubs of children's cartoons.^[10]

References

11. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/exem.htm

12 https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bucquoy_jan.htm

External links

• Tintin in Irak
• Tintin est Vivant! — (French)
• The Unknown Tintin at the Wayback Machine (archived July 19, 2008)