The Adventures of Tin Tin @ Hong Kong

Reading the Adventures of Tintin has been my childhood memory. Maybe it was part of what got me into stories of adventure and moral integrity, stories which you can learn something from.

A paper set of Tintin on the car welcomed by the public for his heroism in reporting the truth. Maybe I could also emulate a scene with 3D paper structures as in in paper theatres, that would be fun.

Tin tin in stamps. It would be fun if I can apply my personal project into real life, e.g. by making objects from the world of my PP, such as stamps they use.

Only by now have I known that Georges Remi/ Hergé had known someone like Chang from Tin Tin, called Zhang, who is a friend of his. 

I really like looking at the drafts because my drafts are usually messy, indistinguishable and full of black repeated lines. Maybe he had a rougher one and a more refined one. But here I see that the emphasis is to show action of the characters, with less focus on the background. 

Assembly of the characters! It is important in world-building ideally to have a diverse range of characters, to diversify the plot and create depth of the world (you wouldn't just have 5 people in the whole setting with them only bumping into each other wherever they are--unless it's a small town or a deserted island).

It must be meticulous work to hand ink and colour each page! I am always fascinated by coloured comics because I know how long it takes to just finish one page. 

Tin tin does have its own narrative style: which is more objective with constant same appearances of characters, realistic portrayals of environments, and the show of movement and speech with the aid of symbols (e.g. stars/ exclamation marks) and movement lines. I think what I can learn from it technically is keeping the sequences constant with each other, as each panel flows naturally through the other. But in terms of content, Tin tin shows an admirable quality of sculpting a favourable character, who is just but not omnipotent, resembling a minor force that reveals a larger, darker structure in society and brings truth to the light.