TINTIN

   I grew up reading the adventures of Tintin. As odd as it sounds, these books had a great influence on my youth. I wanted to be like him! I wanted to travel the world and be a reporter who cleaned up crime in my spare time! Well as we all know, it never turned out that way, and by the time I turned seventeen, my ageless hero was put back on the shelf and I became interested in other fictional characters, such as Nero Wolf.

But the art of Herge has always appealed to me. It holds simplicity in it's strong line, but it shakes with life and color. These books, were carefully drawn by Herge's  motley crew and then resized to fit newspaper standards of the early 20th century.