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Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry
Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry It may now be dominated by American superheros and Japanese manga, but the comic book industry was once associated with no country more than Belgium. Through much of the last century, this small, Western European nation played an outsized…
Tintin comic cover fetches record price at auction
A rare 1932 cover illustration of “Tintin in America” by Herge, the artist who dreamed up the boy reporter, on Saturday fetched a record 1.3 million euros ($1.6 million) at an auction in Paris. “The work has been sold at 1,338,509.20 euros, costs included, by a person who wishes to remain…
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