Cartoonist, illustrator and creative designer, Tara Hannon was the featured speaker at the Cartoon Character to Celebrate The Adventures of Tintin event during International Week at Howard Community College earlier today.
The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist, Georges Rémi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name of Hergé. The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtième, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le XXe Siècle on 10 January 1929.
Set during a largely realistic 20th century, the hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond). Hergé himself features in several of the comics as a background character, as do his assistants in some instances.
The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire style. Its "engaging”, well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humour, accompanied in later albums by satire, and political and cultural commentary.
Tara spoke on how she began cartooning and the process of how she creates cartoons. Students who had designed Tintin cartoons in the language they are studying were on hand and eager to have their cartoon submissions judged by Tara.
Pictures of the winning submissions are below. Enjoy!
Many orignal Tintin books were on display for the attendee's viewing pleasure.
Below is a list of Tintin books.
1. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929–1930)
2. Tintin in the Congo (1930–1931; 1946, 1975)
3. Tintin in America (1931–1932; 1945)
4. Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932–1934; 1955)
5. The Blue Lotus (1934–1935; 1946)
6. The Broken Ear (1935–1937; 1943)
7. The Black Island (1937–1938; 1943, 1966)
8. King Ottokar's Sceptre (1938–1939; 1947)
9. The Crab with the Golden Claws (1940–1941)
10. The Shooting Star (1941; 1942)
11. The Secret of the Unicorn (1942–1943)
12. Red Rackham's Treasure (1943–1944)
13. The Seven Crystal Balls (1943–1948)
14. Prisoners of the Sun (1946–1949)
15. Land of Black Gold (1948–1950; 1972)
16. Destination Moon (1950–1953)
17. Explorers on the Moon (1950–1954)
18. The Calculus Affair (1954–1956)
19. The Red Sea Sharks (1958)
20. Tintin in Tibet (1960)
21. The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
22. Flight 714 (1968)
23. Tintin and the Picaros (1976)
24. Tintin and Alph-Art (1986, 2004)
Tara is also the illustrator of the children’s book, Trusty the Tractor Saves the Day pictured below
For more information on Tara or to purchase some of her beautiful and unique prints, stationery or custom illustrations, please visit her website at http://www.tarajhannon.com/ or her blog at http://meant4amoment.blogspot.com/
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