Tintin & Military aviation

[Emp_Palpatine 501]

I don't know if the belgian Tintin Comic books are much known outside the french-speaking world (especially in the US), but here's the following:

Hergé, Tintin's creator, always drew very carefully the buildings, planes, vehicules and so on in his comics. He also made a few strips dealing with WW2 airplanes wich are quite good.

You'll find them here:

 

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Avion2/pages_avion2/062_Avion2.html

 

And here are a few samples:

 

 

 

Edited November 9, 2009 by Emp_Palpatine

[Stratos 3,192]

They are well known in Spain. He made also very nice cars, simply look at the Jeep of "Objective: The moon"

[Emp_Palpatine 501]

I just saw the website is deeper than I thought:

 

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Avion1/pages_avion1/062_Avion1.html

 

Aviation form the beginning to WW1

 

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Ballon/pages_ballon/062_Ballon.html

Balloons

 

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Avionital/pages-Avionital/002_Avioni.html

Italy and planes

 

Quite out of topic, but here's some about ships:

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Marin1/pages_Marin1/062_Marin1.html

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Marin2/pages_Marin2/062_Marin2.html

 

And trains!

http://users.skynet.be/tintinpassion/VOIRSAVOIR/Locos/pages_Locos/07_Locos.html

[Derk 265]

We call him "Kuifje" after his hairstile. They are wondefull cartoonalbums with great characters like captain Haddock and many more and indeed very nice and accurate drawings !!

 

Hou doe,

 

Derk

[Shaolin 0]

Oh yes, I loved them as a kid (and they are still good)!

BTW, it's called "Tim und Struppi" in Germany...

 

...great drawings!

[Silverbolt 104]

very well know here, but i'm not a great fan execpt for that episode that he gets in in to the V-2 to reach the moon:grin: