King Ottokar's Sceptre 9781770097032 Winter blankets the wreckage of

Winter blankets the wreckage of the world

Herge's Tintin series continues to be a favorite of readers and critics alike 80 years later

The team must stop the terrorists and identify the Caliph before the deadly disease threatens those much closer to home

Eve Mackay

in a very precise reconstruction of old Egypt: the XIXth dynasty

King Ottokar's Sceptre 9781770097032 Winter blankets the wreckage ofThe Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge the pen name of Georges Remi (1907 1983). The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtieme, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, Herge's Tintin series continues to be a favorite of readers and critics alike 80 years