Tintin -vs- Asterix

[luka]

the best asterix is 12 tasks, with a real haunting kafkaesque section involving endless beauraucracy.

 

[craner]

 

[luka]

it really caught me up that one as a kid, i didn't really have to read kafka after reading that.

 

[sufi]

Isn't her brother the cartoonist Martin Bell as well?

her little brother is martin bell the journlist i just found out

 

[catalog]

Asterix is the better story world, but tintin is better comics. I prefer asterix.

 

[luka]

Woebot voted Tintin but Matthew voted Asterix what the fuck

 

[luka]

reading this thread was dire until i saw SOME tintin support...

i read em both as a child, but, yeah Asterix seemed like the same thing over and over again... same Fat Oblisk jokes, the same shot of Romans being punched 200 feet into the air, the big feast at the end of EVERY book... i mean, i liked them, but they didn't really speak to me... i couldn't really imagine them as real... (maybe b/c as an american i didn't really know where Gaul was...)

tintin seemed alot more interesting, the mysteries, the sort of Indiana Jones feel to his various treks to various corners of the globe... somehow it made one feel sophisticated as a 7 year old... i liked seeing various charectors reappear in books...

certain books really stand out... Flight 714 with the weird UFO abduction stuff, the amazing trip to the moon, tintin in america (first one i read...)

also, you simply cannot deny Capt Haddock... nothing like Whiskey jokes in children's books...

and yes, i prefer the simple line style of tin tin to the busyness of Asterix... all the design work is so great on tintin...

This is the only relevant post. The images alone would clinch the argument for him even without the words which are good and true also.

 

[martin]

Yeah I never got on with Tintin, apart from this:

http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/pages/image001.html

Think the link's dead, but I'd forgotten all about that - there's a bit where Tintin and Haddock go for a pint but their pub's been converted into a yuppie wine bar and Tintin throws a stool at the barman. It was stupid but quite funny on drugs.

There was also an Asterix vs the road builders strip circa Newbury bypass, iirc.

Was it this?

 

[john eden]

Think the link's dead, but I'd forgotten all about that - there's a bit where Tintin and Haddock go for a pint but their pub's been converted into a yuppie wine bar and Tintin throws a stool at the barman. It was stupid but quite funny on drugs.

it’s all up at the reliable Libcom now:

J. Daniels

libcom.org

 

[john eden]

Was it this?
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That actually looks way better than what I found.