Comments on: tintin tizzy http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tintin-tizzy/ A Children's Book Blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jorge http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tintin-tizzy/#comment-61 Jorge Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:35:25 +0000 http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-61 Quite on the other end of the gender and taste wall (I was raised on franco-belgian BD, which means Tintin, Spirou and all "clear line" characters) I fully understand not appreciating something, comic hero or otherwise. Taste is no matter for discussion, as they say. The question in debate is to be, or not, admissible to pervert a characters essence, as depicted by its author, even as a parody and were should boundaries lie. Somehow I feel the Spanish author has stretched his work a bit to far but that’s just me. You can read a bit more on the same news, including a Guardian link, at http://my.opera.com/macieira_law/blog/show.dml/2509292 Quite on the other end of the gender and taste wall (I was raised on franco-belgian BD, which means Tintin, Spirou and all “clear line” characters) I fully understand not appreciating something, comic hero or otherwise. Taste is no matter for discussion, as they say. The question in debate is to be, or not, admissible to pervert a characters essence, as depicted by its author, even as a parody and were should boundaries lie. Somehow I feel the Spanish author has stretched his work a bit to far but that’s just me.

You can read a bit more on the same news, including a Guardian link, at
http://my.opera.com/macieira_law/blog/show.dml/2509292

]]> By: Tintin and a certain caterpillar at David Maybury | Blog http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tintin-tizzy/#comment-40 Tintin and a certain caterpillar at David Maybury | Blog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:01:23 +0000 http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-40 [...] very clever and sometimes hungry Caterpillar will be on Dublin’s Q102 radio tomorrow to talk about the great Tintin debacle - the one [...] [...] very clever and sometimes hungry Caterpillar will be on Dublin’s Q102 radio tomorrow to talk about the great Tintin debacle – the one [...]

]]> By: David http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tintin-tizzy/#comment-39 David Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:55:06 +0000 http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-39 To speak for the otherside of the gender wall - I never quite managed to get Tintin either... (I was going to make a joke about ripe old age too, but on second thoughts I think it is safer not to ;) ) To speak for the otherside of the gender wall – I never quite managed to get Tintin either…

(I was going to make a joke about ripe old age too, but on second thoughts I think it is safer not to ;) )

]]> By: Susan http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tintin-tizzy/#comment-38 Susan Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:36 +0000 http://veryhungrycaterpillar.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-38 I was raised on Tintin, and have been following the bit about the new contract clauses (I have LOTS to say on the subject but much of it doesn't belong on a family site!) So I'll be listening, and thanks for the heads up--good luck! I was raised on Tintin, and have been following the bit about the new contract clauses (I have LOTS to say on the subject but much of it doesn’t belong on a family site!)

So I’ll be listening, and thanks for the heads up–good luck!

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