Tintin in Tibet (French: Tintin au Tibet) is the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1958 to November 1959 in Tintin magazine and published as a book in 1960. Hergé considered it his favourite Tintin adventure and an emotional effort, as he created it while suffering from traumatic nightmares and a personal conflict while deciding to leave his wife of three decades for a younger woman. The story tells of the young reporter Tintin in search of his friend Chang Chong-Chen, who the authorities claim has died in a plane crash in the Himalayas. Convinced that Chang has survived and accompanied only by Snowy, Captain Haddock and the Sherpa guide Tharkey, Tintin crosses the Himalayas to the plateau of Tibet, along the way encountering the mysterious Yeti.
Following The Red Sea Sharks (1958) and its large number of characters, Tintin in Tibet differs from other stories in the series in that it features only a few familiar characters and is also Hergé's only adventure not to pit Tintin against an antagonist. Themes in Hergé's story include extrasensory perception, the mysticism of Tibetan Buddhism, and friendship. Translated into 32 languages, Tintin in Tibet was widely acclaimed by critics and is generally considered to be Hergé's finest work; it has also been praised by the Dalai Lama, who awarded it the Light of Truth Award. The story was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman shortly after its conclusion; the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. Tintin in Tibet was adapted for the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana animated series The Adventures of Tintin, the 1992–93 BBC Radio 5 dramatisation of the Adventures, the 1996 video game of the same name, and the 2005–06 Young Vic musical Hergé's Adventures of Tintin; it was also prominently featured in the 2003 documentary Tintin and I and has been the subject of a museum exhibition.
TintininTibet (French: Tintin au Tibet) is the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised...
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Pierre films) Tintin and I (Tintin et Moi) (2003, documentary about Hergé's struggle while creating TintininTibet) Sur le traces de Tintin (2010, documentary...
Calcutta: TintininTibet (Flight stopover for Chang to Kathmandu) Gaipajama: Cigars of the Pharaoh (Fictional) New Delhi: TintininTibet Patna: Tintinin Tibet...
This is the list of fictional characters in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The characters are listed alphabetically...
rest, but Hergé drew an entire story set in a white environment: the snowy mountaintops of Tibet. TintininTibet (1960) not only stopped his nightmares...
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albums he became more respectable and genuinely heroic (notably in the seminal TintininTibet, where he soberly volunteers his life to save his friend). Although...
alterations to the depiction of the Africans in later reprints. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with TintininTibet, and the series as a whole became a...
of Tintin affected it. The film is based strongly around Hergé's experiences and state of mental health leading up to the writing of TintininTibet, often...
Words for Snow. A Yeti serves as a pivotal character in Hergé's 1958-1959 comic book TintininTibet, where it is depicted as an enormous, intelligent and...
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works until creating TintininTibet (1960). The story was adapted for the 1957 Belvision animated series Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana...
page for Hergé's TintininTibet which Hergé deleted from his comic. The origin of the story lies in a scenario for a drawing contest in the Journal de...
is in use in popular literature. For example, in the comic strip TintininTibet, a fictional Air India flight had crashed at Gosainthan. Tintin, Captain...
homage to the opening page of TintininTibet, in which Tintin falls asleep during a chess game, dreams of a friend in trouble, awakens with a shout and...
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