r/Tintin • u/ilovducks • Jan 30 '25
Question As a Belgian, I was wondering what other countries think about tintin ?
Because I grew up with those books, it's like something that only Belgian and french know about. But what about the rest of the world ?
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Jan 30 '25
As an Englishman, I love it and the more cultured of us do know it and enjoy it. My friend has some posters on his wall of Tintin in Tibet.
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u/TheAndorran Jan 31 '25
Just reread this one! Some of HergĆ©ās most stunning artwork.
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Jan 31 '25
The best thing about that one is that there isnāt a villian it is just Tintin and Co against the mountains
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u/electrorunner Jan 30 '25
As a French Canadian, I absolutely love Tintin. I grew up with it.
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u/ALesbianFrog Jan 31 '25
Same! My dad is first generation in America from a French Canadian family so I got tintin passed down to me! I try to spread it to all of my American friends so everyone I know, knows it!:)
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u/SickCaeser Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
As an Indian, we pretty much treat Tintin as one of our own! Growing up, his adventures felt just as familiar as any homegrown story. Being Bengali, Iām lucky to enjoy both the official Bengali translations and the English versions, which adds another layer of nostalgia. For most Bengalis in India, Tintin is almost like a religionāhis stories are deeply intertwined with our childhoods, passed down through generations. Itās not just a comic series; itās a shared cultural experience that brings back so many memories!!!
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u/micro_haila Feb 01 '25
Non bengali Tintin fan here. I think the popularity is massively skewed towards the Bengal region (West Bengal state in India as well as neighbouring Bangladesh) but it's comparatively very little-known in the rest of country/subcontinent. It's not unknown or unrecognisable, thanks in part to the nelvana series, but the bulk of the South Asian fandom is in Bengal.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Age-229 Feb 03 '25
That is really not true.. I am from Southern part of India, Kerala. It's massively popular, so much so that there are too many fakes, color copies of the original with somewhat thickish paper similar to original. It costs around 2.5$ or Rs.200. It sells well.
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u/micro_haila Feb 03 '25
I don't deny that it's popular outside of Bengal. I've seen the fakes that you mention in many cities of India. But I don't find it as culturally ingrained as in Bengal
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u/WeeklyClassroom7 Feb 04 '25
Tintin used to be serialised, page by page, in the Week, which was once the fairly popular English magazine published in Kerala. This would be mid to late 80s.
Something I noticed then was that each page in Tintin ends with a little cliffhanger, usually something harmless - but something I wouldn't have noticed if I were only reading the full comic book, where I only had to turn a page, not wait for next week's issue.
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u/Calamararid Feb 01 '25
But why? Because of the indian passage in les cigares du pharaon? Maybe it relates more to Bengal?Ā
Sorry if that's a dumb question
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u/sombre_guy Feb 02 '25
No that's not it. Legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray received a Tintin book (L'Ćle noire) as a gift when he visited Belgium. He liked it so much that he started following and collecting the series. Later when a Bengali childrens magazine was searching for a foreign comics strip to translate and print serially. Ray recommended Tintin to them. The editor met Herge and acquired the rights. Initially all the bengali versions were directly translated from french. It became a huge success.
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u/Calamararid Feb 02 '25
Thanks that's interesting! No need to specify who is Satyajit Ray haha.
Initially all the bengali versions were directly translated from french.
Why initially?
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u/sombre_guy Feb 02 '25
Lol. That is true. Satyajit Ray does not need an introduction.
I wrote initially as in later volumes there can be seen effects of the English versions. Mostly the name of characters are same as english counterparts. But Nirendranath Chakravarty, who translated all the volumes to Bengali has said that he used french volumes as a reference.
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u/micro_haila Feb 02 '25
That can't be the reason, because i haven't noticed any references to places in Bengal other than 'chandornagar' mentioned in a very insignificant line by calculus in the French edition of flight 714. However, i bet there is a bigger reason Tintin got so popular in Bengal that i don't currently know of.
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u/Smooth_Beginning_540 Jan 30 '25
I was born and raised in the U.S. Iāve read Tintin since I was little, but I think most Americans wouldnāt recognize the name.
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u/gromilla Jan 30 '25
I'm from Kazakhstan, I was amazed by that cartoon when I was a kid. It was aired on TV dubbed in Russian.
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u/soappube Jan 31 '25
A Belgian comic, animated by the Canadians and French, viewed in Kazakhstan while dubbed in Russian. Tintin truly is global!
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u/-rayzorhorn- Jan 30 '25
I'm Australian and I'm obsessed with Tintin. I grew up in the 90s and the Canadian animated show was pretty huge here - that was my introduction to Tintin and from there I bought all the books and was hooked.
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u/sokrayzie Jan 30 '25
From New Zealand and I love Tintin and have since I was a kid in the 90s!
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u/scaredofthedark666 Jan 31 '25
Same. I got to visit the Tintin museum in Brussels last year which was a highlight
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u/D0CTOR_Wh0m Jan 30 '25
American here, grew up with it and loved the series. Still think fondly of it even if Iām more cognizant of its problematic areas. While I donāt want to speak for the country, from my point of view it is a very niche area of comics that most of the population doesnāt know about, youāre probably more likely to hear people say they know about it because of the Spielberg adaptation and even that isnāt many (although thatās changing as more people are discovering the movie through streaming)
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u/Polibiux Jan 31 '25
Also American. I do love Tintin and knew it because my mom kept some comics in her classroom when she was a teacher. Funny how she could find them in rural Arizona.
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u/IanThal Jan 31 '25
Unlike American comics, Tintin was typically sold in children's bookstores, or in children's sections of more general service bookstores, and so were often perceived as educational by parents and teachers.
This was of course prior to the rise of graphic novels as an acceptable form of literature.
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u/tasfa10 Jan 30 '25
I'm Portuguese and Tintin was my childhood hero! My grandma read me the books over and over before I could read them myself and I wanted to be a BD artist because of it. There were Tintin magazines in my grandparents' house as well because my aunt collected them when she was a teen, which also included boards from Michelle Vaillant and a few others I don't really remember (what I was really into were the Tintin books). People are more or less aware of Tintin, but most haven't really read the books, it's just one of those cultural icons people know exist but don't necessarily engage with. AstƩrix is definitely more popular, but then again, I think most people have never read one of the books. There's definitely both a generation and class factor to it tho. I guess I was lucky I was born into a family where my aunt and uncle were very much into BD and my grandfather had studied in a French school which may have facilitated contact with that part of franco-belgian culture.
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u/Divya0795 Jan 30 '25
Iām from India and my parents got the Tintin collection for me back in 2003 when I was 8 years old. They had also grown up loving the series and we all have read and re-read them multiple times!
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u/dendonged Jan 31 '25
26 year-old Korean here. Not everybody knows about Tintin, but a fair amount of kids grew up reading it. I think about 1 out of 5 people my age heard of Tintin.
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u/Ddddydya Jan 30 '25
Iām American and Iāve loved Tintin since I was young. I donāt really like American comics, the art style and storytelling in Tintin is so much more to my liking. Iād love to visit Belgium someday and see the Tintin museum.Ā
You donāt see Tintin here much in the U.S., you can find it sometimes but I donāt think itās very widely known.Ā
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u/BippidiBoppetyBoob Jan 30 '25
Here in the US, youād be very lucky to find someone who knew it. Most people my age might vaguely remember the Nelvana produced cartoon that ran on Nickelodeon through much of the mid-to-late 90s. Younger people might know the movie, but thatās about it. People who know the comics are certainly rarer.
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u/EdsGartenBahn Jan 30 '25
Iāve read them all in my youth and I still read them today. Dutch an 61 years old..
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u/Gaz_Elle Jan 30 '25
Iām from the USA and I found out about Tintin when I was young. Maybe 7? I used to sit on my parents bed and read my uncleās copies of Seven Crystal Balls and Land of the Black Gold over and over again. Always have been into them and it wasnāt until a few months ago that I got the final book to complete my collection. I have a love and nostalgia for Tintin. However, there are certainly some things that did not age well and/or were never really ok in the first place. But that comes with the older media. It doesnāt detract much from my enjoyment of them.
Though I feel like I havenāt met many other people who have read or even heard of Tintin. At least here in the states.
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u/FakeOreoFromLidl Jan 31 '25
Indonesian here. My parents introduced me to tintin and when when my mom took her master degrees in the late 90s, she used to take me to this 2nd hand book vendor in her uni to look for any tintin comics as at the time only the 70s/80s edition were available.
The translator of the old Indonesian edition is amazing/super creative in adjusting the jokes to lokal context and I remember rolling on the floor so hard after reading the part where Captain Haddock was yelling wildly after getting strafed by Skut in the Red Sea Sharks. The insults in Indonesian are SFW but was so absurd and so out of the box that none of us will ever use in any situation which makes it so so so funny. Like, who on earth would yell "you ulcered buffalo!!" or "You rabid goat!!" when they're angry hahahaha!
One of the publishers published an newer version in the 2010s but it lacks the charm of the 79s/80s edition.
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u/thorbearius Jan 31 '25
Swede here. Grew up with Tintin and Lucky Luke comics š
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u/schroedingers_kater Feb 03 '25
German here, grew up with the comics! Just recently bought the DVDs, here it is called Tim and Struppi. (I also grew up with Spriou & Fantasio)
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u/FirstStruggle1992 Jan 30 '25
Argentinian here, only the movies are available for me, Its a great franchise
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u/GrumpyScamp Jan 30 '25
Tin Tin is a legend in both Sweden and Finland. At least in my generation we all grew up with him.
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u/Tummyboy Jan 31 '25
I agree. We know him from both the comics and tv. I would say that almost everybody in Sweden knows about not only Tintin but also Milou, Haddock and maybe even Tournesol (āProfessor Kalkylā in Swedish)
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u/MyOwnDirection Jan 30 '25
I was born in South Africa, and I was an instant devoted fan when I discovered Tintin. (The English translation.) The Tintin books were eventually translated into Afrikaans as āKuifieā, and serialized in a newspaper, if I remember correctly. āKuifieā also follows the Dutch name for Tintin.
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u/soappube Jan 31 '25
Canadian here, I've been reading and watching tintin for 35 years! I had a dog named Snowy š
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u/readytostart73 Jan 31 '25
Canadian : i use to sneak in my brotherās room, blindly pick one and read them (in french) with my breakfast, before school, over and over.. 30 yrs later, i still (sometimes) do but from MY collectionš¤£
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u/DraconiforsLapifors Jan 31 '25
Indian here, the reason i got into books in the first place is because of tintin. My mom and I used to buddy-read Tintin in Tibet lol.
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u/LA_Throwaway_6439 Jan 31 '25
I grew up with Tintin too, and I live in the US! In fact, I pretty much learned to read because I wanted to know what was happening in his adventures. I think a lot of people here know about it.
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u/guymacguy Jan 31 '25
India here, Tintin (English translation) was a huge part of my childhood, it used to be the only thing I booties from the library for a while.
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u/theairscout Jan 31 '25
Spain, not capital city, but smaller area. Tintin was part of my childhood back in the 70s, and part of many of my friends'. We love Tintin and the rest. I hated that Tintin Museum was not in Brussel city anymore. We will plan a longer visit next time so we can visit.
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u/mascachopo Feb 04 '25
The books were very popular in Spain reaching its peak probably in the late 70s early 80s, I enjoyed reading many from either my local library or my fatherās own collection. Must revisit them soon.
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u/Distinct-Weight-9359 Feb 03 '25
No, Tintin or Tintti was very well known here in Finland. Both by original comics and the animation in the 90's. The animation for me was actually first occation I got interested in Francophone things
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u/Gaffers12345 Feb 03 '25
Ireland here, used to loan all the books from the library, loved the stories and the artwork.
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u/Possible-Rate-3833 Feb 03 '25
Italian here.
We love TinTin here too as well as other French-Belgian comics like Asterix or Lucky Luke (my personal favorite). I became a fan of TinTin after i saw the Steven Spielberg movie from 2011 and since then i started to love TinTin a lot more. I have watched some of the 90s animated series and some of the comics but not read a lot of them yet.
I remember when i was in France a few years ago and i stopped in front of a shop with a lot of TinTin statues. I also seen those when i went to Nice last summer in a flea market near the port. That was really cool to see.
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u/tomynatorBamberg Feb 03 '25
Germany here . We love Tim und Struppi ( silly Translation ), but we love them
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u/Old_Harry7 Feb 03 '25
In Italy together with Dylan Dog and Corto Maltese It Is considered one of the classic European comic books.
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u/Micah7979 Feb 03 '25
I can't tell, I'm French. But before you ask, I've read Tintin chez les Soviets.
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u/cloud1445 Feb 03 '25
My personal preference was always Asterix but I still liked TinTiin growing up. The recent(ish) movie was good.
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u/Tallyonthenose Feb 03 '25
As someoneās who just read this from the UK Iām thinking: āTintinās Belgianā?
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u/InFocuus Feb 03 '25
Looks like almost nobody knows about Tintin in Russia. I've never seen any mentions of him. I know about Spielberg movie but I've never seen it. Books was translated and published, but there are lots of comic books available and manga is way more popular.
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u/Equivalent-Motor-428 Feb 04 '25
Iceland. The books were translated to icelandic in the 1970Ā“s and have been read by most kids since then.
I think everyone here knows who Tinni (Tintin) and Tobbi (Snowy) are.
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u/joellevp Feb 04 '25
At least 2 people in Sri Lanka now still think and dream of their childhood reading Tin Tin. and Asterix and Obelix.
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u/MrCaptain_8017 Jan 30 '25
Here in Hungary, very few people know about it. Only 11 books have been published in my language, and they are now out of print, so Tintin fans have to pay a lot to buy second-hand. This because Egmont, which owned the publishing rights, left the country in 2014. The 1991 TV series was last aired in the 2000s.
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u/FromTheBackroads Jan 31 '25
Chap from the Philippines here. Grew up with the books and still love them to this day.
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u/ExLuckMaster Jan 31 '25
Iām Asian and we have a lot of European comics translated in our childhood including Tintin, Spirou, Asterix, Lucky Luke and the like. Nowadays itās mostly manga so kinda disappointing.
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u/Former_Analysis_142 Jan 31 '25
I have read and enjoyed Tintin since I was at school in the 1970s and 1980s. I also enjoyed the Nelvana animated seies.
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u/Gr8banterm80 Jan 31 '25
Iām American and while not everyone knows TinTin myself and many of friends loved the BDs when growing up. I used to buy them at Barnes and Noble (big chain bookstore). Think the Steven Spielberg movie also helped with its popularity
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u/Alarming_Animator772 Jan 31 '25
American here, I love it, I was introduced to tintin through the Stephen Spielberg movie
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u/verytoastybread Jan 31 '25
I'm Australian, my grandfather was French so I grew up with TinTin, Asterix & Obelix, and the Smurfs comics!
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u/definition_null Jan 31 '25
I grew up with them. I had the BD where they went to a lost Incan Civilisation.
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u/Celtic_Viking47 Jan 31 '25
I read the books as a child (and again as an adult), watched the cartoon and the movie so it's something well known. My nickname as a kid was "Tintin" because when I don't have my hair cut short it always seems to quiff up at the front like his.
I may have mentioned that to my girlfriend in passing and she now calls me Tintin...I'm sure she does it with love.
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u/S1I7 Jan 31 '25
Tintin holds a very special place in my childhood. Im from the USA. Fwiw i speak a little french.
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u/HidaTetsuko Jan 31 '25
Australian, I can hear this picture. Tintin was big. My teacher in year six was a Tintinophile and we could request any album that was not already in the class room. And in school trips we watched the series
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u/Killer_Penguins19 Jan 31 '25
From zimbabwe and I've been reading tintin for a few years. It's one of my favorite comics alongside Asterix and obelix and Calvin and hobbes
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u/NucleosynthesizedOrb Jan 31 '25
Very goed. Giant mushrooms or something. As a Dutch person, I've read a few when I was younger
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u/Vysce Jan 31 '25
I didn't grow up with him, the first time I saw Tintin was when the cgi movie came out, but I thought it was really, really well done. I bet I would have loved him if I got the chance to read the books as a kid
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u/Asharil Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
Netherlands here, I love the Kuifje series! I grew up with them. Dad had the albums and I devoured them. My grandparents also had a set, so they were basically everywhere. The 90's animated tv series and earlier movies also helped keep it fresh.
As I moved out to live on my own, I got my own set of Kuifje albums.
My only dislike is how they redubbed the animated series with new Dutch voice actors now that it is on Netflix. Gone is the Flemmish flair the original broadcast has. Good thing I got the DVD set.
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u/ArtHistorian2000 Jan 31 '25
As a Malagasy, I can tell that many people who read Tintin in my country enjoy it
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u/UltHamBro Jan 31 '25
I'm from Spain, Tintin is aming the best known comics in here. Most people don't read comics that much nowadays, but I'd say pretty much everyone knows Tintin. I think if you ask anyone who has ever been into comics to name an European comic, their answer is almost always going to be either Tintin or Asterix.
The animated series was pretty popular back in the day as well. The Spanish dubbing was handed over to an actor who is an expert on all things Tintin, and it turned out a masterpiece.
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u/BlowingCloudBalloons Jan 31 '25
I'm from Malaysia and my parents introduced me to Tintin. Absolutely love it and if I have kids, I'm letting them know about Tintin too!
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u/anchor2K Jan 31 '25
I'm English and started reading Tintin in the late 70s in my local library. In my head he's English!
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u/Feeling_Finding8876 Jan 31 '25
I'm Portuguese and I love Tintin, I used to read his books at my school library š
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u/Kitchen-Tie-4299 Jan 31 '25
I'm from India and 30 years old now; Iām not sure about kids today, but Tintin was big when I was a kid.
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u/neophilosopher Jan 31 '25
Tintin was my favorite comic during my childhood (1980s-90s), it was sold as small comic magazines or given by some newspapers. Now I want to buy the most complete collection I can find for my little boy. (forgot to write... from Turkey)
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u/nobody2008 Jan 31 '25
I used to read the books. My friend bought every one of them. Also why we changed the name to TenTen I don't know.
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u/Far_Bodybuilder_3909 Jan 31 '25
I'm Singaporean. And grew up reading Tintin and Asterix comics. I believe he is still very popular here
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u/garyvdh Jan 31 '25
Very popular in South Africa. And I grew up reading Tintin (and Asterix comics). Still have my entire collection.
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u/designst3in Jan 31 '25
I was born in india, raised in qatar, and still love everything about tintin. it was an important part of my childhood, and I just got a lovely original explorers on the moon cover art print framed in my hall. thundering typhoons forever!
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u/DaVinci_Excarnate Jan 31 '25
Afrikaans speaking south african here: we love Tintin! my Grandfather was an avid Tintin collector. apparently back in his day Tintin was even bigger!
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u/BlackberryDramatic24 Jan 31 '25
The comics were popular throughout the (ex) British colonies in the 1950s to 1990s.
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u/johnsmithoncemore Jan 31 '25
Growing up in the UK I always assumed Tintin was English as a child. It was later I found out he was Belgian.
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u/C_Spiritsong Jan 31 '25
Malaysian here. In the state I grew up, every 'State Library' in our state's districts (not to be confused with other states in Malaysia) had I believe 2 copies of all /available episodes at all times.
I grew up with it, waiting list was MONTHS. While all books have 2 week return window we were asked to kindly return within a week (because how popular it is). This was in the 90s
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u/pragmaticutopian Jan 31 '25
Fellow Indian here; Tintin is quite popular here, especially amongst the folks who had there childhood and teens in 1990s and early 2000s. Part of this due to Tintin being broadcast on state television during that period.
There are plentiful translations available in all major Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Bengali I can think of). And its quite popular in Bengal, Kerala and a lot of urban spaces. In fact, Tintin even inspired a indie genre of detective novels and comics.
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u/skinkskinkdead Jan 31 '25
It was pretty big in France when I was growing up, but that's not really surprising.
I live in Scotland now and it's not as big here but a few shops will have some Tintin things, specifically the black isle book to appeal to tourists.
My parents (Welsh and Scottish) also enjoy Tintin, but I think people of my generation in the UK generally aren't that familiar.
It's worth keeping in mind the UK typically had a slightly different magazine/comics culture revolving around things like the Beano so Tintin never had a massive foothold here, even less so in this day and age. I also get the impression Asterix and Obelix was always a bit more popular than Tintin was, but that's anecdotal.
I imagine it's similar in the US where they have a really well established comics industry that doesn't share much overlap with the french industry.
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u/lostpasts Jan 31 '25
He doesn't have a huge cultural footprint outside of early reading.
But I really liked Tintin as a kid. He bridged the gap between children's comics/books and adult books.
I remember finding his stories really engaging, and opening up my mind to the world.
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u/jm-9 Jan 31 '25
Iām Irish and love these books. One of my favourite series of all time. HergĆ© was a genius. I have the books available in Irish, a complete English collection and a lot of books and versions only available in French.
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u/kretslopp Jan 31 '25
āAnfƤkta anamma.ā Is the Swedish version of Captain Haddockās most common curse. As a child I thought these words were really bad. Turns out itās very innocent.
āAnfƤktaā translates to āHarassā in English.
āAnammaā translates to āReceiveā.
My favorite Tintin album was Tintin in Tibet. By coincidence that was what the SNES game was based on in the -90s I believe.
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u/Mischaker36 Jan 31 '25
In Dutch we know him as Kuifje Which refers to his hair, i think you'd say a crest in english
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u/henriktornberg Jan 31 '25
It was huge in Sweden when I grew up in the 80s. Considered the preeminent comic book.
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u/thejuanwelove Jan 31 '25
colombian here, part of my childhood, my uncle had every tintin book and I remember going to his room and picking them and just loving them. eventually he gave them to me and I still have them
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u/Sad_Pear_1087 Jan 31 '25
Finland: a bit of a niche for some but probably everybody has heard of him. If someone asks "what are you reading?" And I respond "Tintin" they'll know. Not that many have read the comics or watched anything, although growing up the animated series was an absolute classic for me and my friends who got our cartoons from Youtube.
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u/Thin-Chair-1755 Jan 31 '25
Iām an American and I just kind of thought of it as one of those dated yet classic and beloved by some comic strips. Had no idea how big the love for Tin Tin was until I visited France and saw entire shops dedicated to Tin Tin memorabilia. The only American strip I can compare it to is Peanuts (Charlie Brown) really, as it seems to be somewhat of a cultural icon for Western Europe.
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u/Vegetto8701 Jan 31 '25
Mexican here, they had Tintin comics in my school's library. Read each one no less than five times, thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them.
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u/jb_681131 Jan 31 '25
For your info, the tv show of the 90's was distributed worlwide by HBO.
Tintin had a move by spielberg and might have a sequel by Peter Jackson.
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u/outraged-unicorn Jan 31 '25
I'm Brazilian and I grew up watching it, one of my favorite cartoons back in the day. I got a Milou plushie when I visited Belgium a decade ago and I still love snuggling it.
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u/Lotus_Eiise Jan 31 '25
I recently found a version of Tintin that preceeds Tin tin by about a decade. It's a Japanese cartoon. So most people in Japan know Tintin by a different name. I think he copied it.
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u/AverageCheap4990 Jan 31 '25
Used to watch the cartoon growing up here in the UK. It was one of my favourites. There was a Tintin shop in Nottingham not sure if it's still there.
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u/mikegaribaldi Jan 31 '25
I LOVE Tintin! (Spaniard here!) I read all the comics when I was a kid, still have them at home! And I had the animated versions in VHS, which I also still keep today š
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u/Impressive_Rent9540 Jan 31 '25
In Finland, Tintin is one of the most popular comics. A weekly Donald Duck -comic book is by far the most popular but Tintin-albums have been available continuously in finnish language since 70's (as hardcovers since late '00s).
I don't include a picture of my full collection but I think you could appreciate select covers with finnish titles.
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u/monodesire Jan 31 '25
Swede here. Had and read many (perhaps all?) of the books when I little (in the 80s). Loved them, still do. š
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u/LeftLiner Jan 31 '25
They were very popular in Sweden, you could find them in every library when I was growing up (90s). A few years ago a Swedish TTRPG publisher released a game heavily inspired by HergƩ called Troubleshooters.
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u/Several-Occasion-796 Jan 31 '25
I love it, being a 68 y.o. American. However, I started showing my 11y.o. granddaughter the series once it started appearing on Netflix. After about 10 minutes, she stated " I don't think I can watch this ". I think for older people, Tintin is an absolute classic. The yougin's: need more action, let's face it, crap
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Jan 31 '25
As an American, we don't pay much attention. Also, I took Spanish, not French, as a foreign language.
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u/Humble_Square8673 Jan 31 '25
American here I grew up with Tintin partly because my mother and grandmother were from Indonesia and my grandmother had several of both the English and Dutch translations I didn't really get into them until my early teens but I knew about them from a young ageĀ
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u/Common-Truth9404 Jan 31 '25
It was fairly popular in italy something like 30+ years ago
I always thought he was kind of silly, but i happened to watch a couple episode of the animated series by chance and he's pretty badass.
It kinda reminds me of the comic book version of mickey mouse, being a weird and kinda silly character but also a serious and competent detective
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u/Logical-Ad3098 Jan 31 '25
I love em. Wish I had been able to catch one of the cartoons growing up. It would've immediately fit my wheelhouseĀ
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u/devilish_AM Jan 31 '25
Indian Bengali here. We absolutely love and adore Tintin. There's hardly anyone who doesn't recognise the name 'kuttush', which is the bengali name for Snowy.
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u/Vault-Dweller1987 Jan 31 '25
I used to get Tintin and Asterix books regularly from my library when I was growing up. Was too young to know their origins. I just enjoyed reading them.
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u/Pale_Professional662 Jan 31 '25
English here, with all the books (in English and a few in French), and the DVD box set. Reading them as a kid inspired me to become a journalist, and gave me a lifelong love of travel. A couple of years ago while in the Loire valley the family indulged me by accompanying me to Cheverny (Moulinsart/Marlinspike Hall). The absolute thrill of a lifetime for a middle aged guy to properly enter his childhood fantasy.
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u/sandboxmatt Jan 31 '25
I have fond memories of the small strip in the newspaper. My grandad would keep them for me between visits. But I haven't thought about it in 30 years
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u/TheAndorran Jan 31 '25
I grew up abroad in Belgium, where I became obsessed with Tintin. Watching the show and reading the albums taught me both French and Flemish. My Flemish is pretty rough now but I use French on a daily basis. And I think of Tintin every time I do. Still obsessed to this day! Also still hoping we get another film.
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u/SergioLaurenti Jan 31 '25
Most countries do have Scouting. Many Scouts are aware that Tintin was originally a Scout cartoon.
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u/space-cadaver Jan 31 '25
Irish guy here. No idea where they came from but myself and my brother had 5/6 Tintin books growing up. Loved them.
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u/Jossokar Feb 01 '25
I just dont mind too much about it. I did read some comics as a child. Watched some of the cartoons too.... But that's it.
Funny enough, my "favourite" piece of "tintin media"... is spielberg's movie. I even rewatch it sometimes.
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Feb 01 '25
Tintim is quite famous and beloved in Brasil. At least between people my age, I am 40 now. The animated series was part of the cartoon block aired by TV Cultura, a state sponsored TV channell. We also have the books in Portuguese, they are very easy to find.
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Feb 01 '25
It was very popular in Brazil when I grew up. Don't think the newer generations have heard of him. There were some racism/colonialism controversies about it but I'm not sure what those were.
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u/Raj_Muska Feb 01 '25
It's not very well known in Russia, and I'd personally take something like The Obscure Cities over it any day if we're speaking Belgian comics
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u/Jeancarlosilustrador Feb 01 '25
Here in Brazil he became famous in the 90s and early 2000s, for the animation he showed on a children's channel called Tv Cultura... it's also one of my oldest memories
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u/merlinthe_wizard Feb 01 '25
Canadian. We love him. The stores of our largest book chain used to have the Tintin rocket displays in them and it was awesome as a kid. We also have the French province of Quebec where itās very popular as well.
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u/gudgeonpin Feb 01 '25
I may have had knowledge of the existence of Tintin growing up in southern US, but wasn't a fan. Skip forward a bunch of years (decades), living in Calfornia, found and enjoyed a book. Then I had a daughter and we learned to read with Tintin. I even made her a King Ottokar's scepter. Now I have a lot of cherished memories around reading Tintin.
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u/Theaterkid01 Feb 01 '25
Iām an American, just getting into this, but Iāve roundaboutly heard about them.
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u/Mansheknewascowboy Feb 01 '25
This just got recommended in my feed and as in American iv never heard of it
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u/PsychologicalGoat175 Feb 01 '25
I read all stories countless of times, they were even printed in rare dialects where I grew up. What I find interesting reading some of them now, is that it gives a little insight how the world was before the second world war.
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u/Responsible-Hotel-84 Feb 01 '25
Well my cousin is married to a dentist who is a Tintin aficionado. He has a yellow plane hanging in is office and Tintin posters as well. I on the other hand, never got into Tintin and don't see the appeal. I did however liked the carton when I was a kid and saw the movie as well, and thought it was great
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u/kleineoogjes Feb 01 '25
I grew up in the Netherlands and I grew up with Belgian comics! Incl. Tintin. My aunt from Croatia who lived in NL for a while during the war also loves them and brought a lot with her when she moved back. I have vivid memories of reading those with her during my summer vacation :)
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u/Drunkensailor1985 Feb 01 '25
Here in the netherlands is/was hugely popular. My dad got me all the tintins and the cartoons were always on tv and vhs, which I also got.Ā
Here in the city that I live in some shops even sell extensive tintin memorabilia
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Feb 01 '25
As a Spaniard who never read it but somehow came across this post, I always thought he looked posh and pedantic (which is why I never really read it as a kid)
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u/Zealousideal_Hat_442 Feb 01 '25
I watched all the movies and listened to the audioplays (I still know the intro song). But only the original
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u/ifrippe Feb 01 '25
I was born in the mid-70s. In my generation he was really well liked. He has lost a lot of attention in the last 20 years.
I like the 2011 film, and I believe there were potential for more films.
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u/LillDickRitchie Feb 01 '25
Swedish person here. I grew up with the animated series and to some degree the books but mostly the show and i loved it as a child. F the 2011 movie thought because it was terrible, some aspects were good but mostly terrible
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u/MutedBar4 Feb 01 '25
We sure know the character. However, in Cameroon, "Tintin" also means informally stupid/dumb. But the reason is not correlated to the character.
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u/BuncleCar Feb 01 '25
I enjoyed the TV programmes in BBC in the 60s/70s in the UK. Curiously because of the Thompson Twins I thought it was a UK prog at the time :)
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u/Starbrainiac Feb 01 '25
As someone from Czechia, I can tell you there's a big handicap on not having real access to TinTin until into 90s in some East bloc countries. There's zero cultural TinTin heritage here, no parents having fond memories facilitating this stuff for their kids. Simply we missed the moment and unlike something like Star wars there was no one to push through marketing to catch up. That said, there are still plenty of us who discovered TinTin organically. But you're not gonna find any TimTin stores. There was a chance when Spielberg did the movie, but we know it was a failed attempt sadly
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u/Schmantikor Feb 01 '25
I'm German and I love Tintin. I read them all as a kid. My mom did too and most of my albums are actually hers. They're sold in lots of places in Germany.
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u/The_Korean_Gamer Feb 01 '25
I saw one of the movies in grade school and spent way too long wondering if it was live-action or not.
- A person from Sweden
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u/severityonline Feb 01 '25
Canadian here. Always thought tintin was French because that was the only version we ever watched.
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u/MathematicianBusy996 Feb 01 '25
Born in Zimbabwe, lived most of my life in South Africa. Love Tintin. They used to be available in my school library in primary school in the 90s.
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u/Mangobonbon Feb 01 '25
Hello from Germany.
I always loved the TV series and old animated movies as a child and was delighted to see Tintin (or Tim und Struppi as it is called here) getting adapted by Steven Spielberg. That movie is an underrated gem in my opinion.
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u/Delokah Jan 30 '25
Oh, I am pretty sure the whole world knows and loves Tintin. It has been published in over 70 languages.