RIP Raymond Leblanc, publisher of Tintin
Joe sez, "Tom Spurgeon on the excellent Comics Reporter posted sad news over the holiday weekend - Belgian publisher Raymond Leblanc passed away at the age of 92. For those who don't know, Raymond, a former Resistance member during the Nazi occupation, set up the famous Tintin magazine after the war, bringing in Herge, then labouring under a blacklist for collaboration during the occupation. He pushed Lombard into one of the top European comics albums publishers and worked with a roll call of the great and good of the medium. Fair to say the comics scene would have been far, far poorer without him and some of the characters generations of us have grown up reading might never have made it if not for his guidance and energy."
Link, Link to interview with Leblanc (Thanks, Joe!)A civil servant turned member of the French Resistance in World War II, the Longlier native partnered with two friends to create a small publishing company on Rue du Lombard in Brussels. Their big coup came in 1945 when they convinced Herge to bring his Tintin into the fold of a weekly publication devoted to kids to share the feature's name. The cartoonist, already a success with a dozen albums to his credit but battered personally and professionally by the limited publishing opportunities during the war in a way that would drive criticism his way for the remainder of his days, accepted their offer. He recruited three friends -- Paul Cuvelier, Edgard P. Jacobs, Jacques Laudy -- to help him form the core of the magazine. They and their successors would take aim at the successful Spirou and forge a successful legacy for themselves at the same time.
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Oh, I loved these as a child. Glad to hear that this gentleman is being remembered.
I have been a follower of boingboing.net for some time but am leaving a comment only now to this piece. My sister and I grew up with Tintin that even as adults today, we would color our conversations, jokes and references to stories and characters of Tintin. I'm sure she'll be as greatful to Mr Leblanc for bringing Herge and Tintin as part of the childhood of many across the globe. Thank you from Manila.
Tintin - my favourite! I have read each and every single one of those comic books - many times over and I never tire of them. Thank you Raymond Leblanc, for publishing Tintin comics and bringing such wonderful joy to my life.
When is the Tintin movie coming out? I hope they do it right.
Good news on the Tintin-related front: Spielberg and Peter Jackson are making a motion-capture Tintin trilogy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin#Films
(look at the last paragraph of that section)
#5 POSTED BY STALEFRIES: RE Spielberg Tintin trilogy
Wired blog has an entry dated 15 March 2008 about it :)
RE:#6 POSTED BY KAFFEE , MARCH 25, 2008 9:07 AM
RE: #5 POSTED BY STALEFRIES: RE Spielberg Tintin trilogy
Wired blog has an entry dated 15 March 2008 about it :)
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Apologies. That should read May 15, 2007.
I have the proud distinction of having read every single Tintin-album, including the unfinished Tintin et l'alph-art. When I started studying French in school, I read Les Sept Boules de Cristal (The Seven Crystal Balls, one of my favorites, along with The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure) with the comic in one hand and a dictionary in the other (the truth is all the books that were double-issues are fantastic; Cigars of the Pharaoh and Blue Lotus, Destination Moon, Prisoners of the Sun, etc.)
I always loved General Alcazar. I love how he just shows up in The Seven Crystal Balls, like, from out of nowhere, and then again in The Red Sea Sharks, and then disappears until the last album. I mean, he's a General fer chrissakes, what's he doing as a knife-thrower in a variety-show?
an, that's sad. I grew up on Tintin. Destinati0on moon and the 7 Christal balls are probibly my favorites. I'm pretty sure I've read just about all of them.
I'm looking foreword to the movie. If both peilberg and Jackson are involved there's a very good chance of it being good. (THough I've been disapointed by "big names" before.)