The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929 until 1976. As the first publication, Tintin in the Land of the

Celebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin's Aesthetics

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2025-01-08 01:00:26

The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929 until 1976. As the first publication, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, is now over 95 years old, the character has entered the public domain in the US as of Jan. 1, 2025.

For those unfamiliar, Tintin is a journalist who travels the world solving various mysteries and cases. He’s joined by a cast of eccentric characters to help him along the way, like Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Thomson and Thompson, and of course his little dog Snowy.

Given this auspicious addition to our collective ownership, I wanted to celebrate Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin as a valuable cultural heritage that remains an enduring timeless classic. The comic’s aesthetics, themes, and global reach make it alluring to readers young and old today.

Tintin is timeless. I use timeless here not as a feeling of modernism. Nope, it feels very of a different time and place. Instead, timelessness in the case of Hergé means the beauty and allure of his aesthetics remains unanchored to the era.