In this page are stories of how other people found out about Tintin books, and how they got into them. Just send in your story! You can make it as long, or as short as you want. Just include your name. Click here to send your story in!
Jeremy Davis
Simple - Land of Black Gold was the first book I EVER read from cover to cover!!!
Naomi
The first Tintin books I read were Tintin in America and The Blue Lotus! I borrowed them from a library when I was 7 because my Dad is a Tintin fan. Now I have all the Tintin books, including Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo. My favourite Tintin books are The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackhams Treasure!
Kalindi
If you don't already know how I became at Tintin fan from the page about me here is how it goes: I borrowed The Castafiore Emerald from the library because my mother said she used to read Tintin books when she was my age. So I read the book but didn't like it. I only finished it for my mom. Well, luckily some time later I gave Tintin a second chance. I read The Blue Lotus and loved it. And that's the way it's been from then on!
"tintinrulz"
I am 20 years old and I discovered Tintin at the age
of 8. I was in my primary school library and saw
Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon and the
Castafiore Emerald sitting on the shelf. I borrowed
them thinking they would be interesting and they
hooked me - even though I don't much like the
Castafiore Emerald album. Ever since I have been an
avid Tintin fan. I have Congo and Soviets in English
and some of the other albums. All of them are very
good, excluding (in my opinon) Red Rackham's Treasure
and the Castafiore Emerald (which are just good).
My favourites are Flight 714 and The Calculus Affair.
Long live Tintin!
Kuan
My father told me about Tintin and asked me to find the book in the library.
I just picked out one from the bookshelf: The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea
Sharks, and Tintin in Tibet. I enjoyed it so much that I went back to the
library and read the rest.
"lion"
My mom got me hooked on Tintin when I was 10. Now I'm 14 and addicted, and that's a good thing.
Sam
My mother got me hooked on Tintin as well...I'm 36 and still re-reading them all...thundering typhoons!
Andrew Kochergin
One day after my family permanently moved from Ukraine to Canada, I was just surfing through the chanels on my television and I quite accidently stumbled upon "The Secret of the Unicorn" or whatever cartoon which I watched from the middle to the very end; it sort of got me interested in the Tintin cartoons so I watched practically every episode and rerun day by day, I wasn't exactly sure if the comics existed or not. A few months later at the age of six, my family went to this huge library in our neighborhood for the first time, and I was just browsing through the kids section and instantly recognized "The Exploreers on the Moon" comic book and grabbed it off the shelf, I read through it, then borrowed it, and from then on I read every Tintin comic available in the library (unfortunatly they didn't have "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets", "Tintin in Congo", and "The Blue Lotus"). Afterwards I just stopped reading them and occasionally watched the cartoon, then they stopped showing it and I completely forgot about Tintin.
Seven years later, I was at Superstore with my friend and then we were just looking at the magazines and stuff, and I suddenly noticed "The Calculus Affair" sitting right in the middle of nowhere, I grabbed it instantly and started reading through it just as I had seven years earlier, and I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed it although at www.amazon.com it was clearly stated that the reading level was suitable from grade one to grade three. As soon as I got home, I started ordering all the Tintin comics that that same library had and now I'm still rereading them. I also started purchasing the 3-in-1 volumes, someday I presume I'll have them all.
So yeah, I enjoyed Tintin as a child, and after a seven year hiatus, I still thoroughly enjoy the comics as a teenager, and that's how I became a Tintin fan.
Sage
First I loved Aladdin. But then, a few months later, I found my dad’s Tintin stories on the shelves. Then we were reading the books constantly and I loved them. We bought more until I had most all of them. My favorite Tintin story is Tintin in Tibet. Most of the time I look at Tintin books in bed at night after my dad reads me stories. I’m five years old and my mom is typing this letter for me.
Elliott
my first book was tintin in america and since then i have been a big tintin fan. my favourite Tintin book is tintin in tibet. I first read tintin when i was 8. i am now 11.
ALDORA ZIRTANMA
I remember my brothers (who are a lot older than me), tellin' me to watch this TV show that was advertised on telly. Tintin it was called. They neva really liked my taste in cartoons and told me that this one was decent. Well, I decided to give it a try, and almost died from laughter. Seriously, I bagged it like there was no tomorrow, sayin' things like 'It looks so old!' and 'How come his hair sticks back up just as he pulls up from the water' and 'The retard keeps on talkin' to that dumb old dog!'. Well, my bros weren't impressed by my lack of respect for the cartoon, and told me to rack off. A few weeks later, I gave it another try, but still bagged it out. Eventually, I learned to like it. I even taped an episode. Yes, 'AN' as in 'ONE' episode. Well, as you may know, I was driven even more mad by the fact that I only had one episode, and that was the second part to 'Explorers on the Moon'. Man oh man! Was I ever glad to have found some books in my local Library. And I was over the moon to get the TINTIN DVD BOX OFFICE SET for x-mas this year (2004). Well, bein' in m' early teens, I can expect to be watchin' those episodes ova and ova again. But, even though the first time I saw Tintin was a looooooooong time ago (At the start of 2004), I can still remember that first episode. THE SHOOTING STAR! *sigh* It brings a sparkle to ev'ry throat and a lump to ev'ry eye.
;-P ;-D I should probably shut m' mouth.
Aaron, aaronbatterson6@hotmail.com.
I was about 4-5 years old when I rummaged through my parents bookshelves and found a hardcover book known as; The Adventures of Tintin; The Black Castle. It was terrific, wonderful use of simple but detailed illustrations, funny quotes and bizarre twists that created a mystery in crime that only a young boy with a fluffy white dog could ever have a hope in solving. A few years later, I found a collection of Tintin at my local library and exhausted the valuable collection of books within a week. After reading Tintin, I discovered Asterix, and my love for comics became evident. I loved the television series, which evidently didn’t live up to the magnificent of the comics themselves but was an awesome perspective of the voiceless media. My original copy of the Black Castle was sadly lost in a small house fire (hehe), but my love for Tintin survived the flames and now I acquire any Tintin merchandise I come across (at this stage a cardboard cut-out of Haddock from my local library, slack I know). I am now 16 and have learnt that the Tintin saga began dying long ago, but I hope that the wonders of Herges comics survive for many centuries to come so that the Thompson twins will always have someone to laugh at their ridiculous antics.
Shishir Singh
I was around the age of 12-13, when I got hooked to tintin. I remember tintin books being pretty expensive for my pocket change to afford. I use to beg, borrow and steal to get hold of tintin books. I remember cycling with my friends all the way to Dolls Museum Library (ITO) in New Delhi and check them out. I am now 32 and still enjoy them. Whenever I go to the county library , I check them out.
My elder brother is also a fan of tintin and his b’day is around the corner. Won’t it be a cool gift to give him a collection of all the tintin’s which have been published.
Do you fans know any Web-store, where I can order tintin collection?
Have a Wonderful Day !!
Thanks
Richard Hibbert
I first became interested ion TinTin, about in 2003. I was at my Dad's, when I stumbled downstairs, weary and knackered. I turned on the tv, and up he popped, not bad eh? I watched it and found it pretty decent! Apparantly my Dad loved him as well, so I had just got in to him. Got the complete collection now, 14 hours of this funny little lad and his snowy dog running about solving mysteries...brilliant.
UTB.
Karim
I have been a fan for over 35 years
I grew up in Iran where the books were difficult to get a hold of. My best
friend and I used to compete to get the latest ones available in
town...eventually we decided that one of us would collect Asterix(me) and
the other Tintin (him) so as to avoid over enthusiastic rivalry
I have to admit that I once cheated and could not resist buying the only
copy of "The Broken Ear" in town even though I knew he would be going to the
shop to buy it just a few minutes after my visit! He was furious that
someone else had beaten him to it and it was a few weeks later that I
admitted it to him that it had been me!!!
Terrible I know but we remain close friends to this day and have a great
laugh about it...years later I gave him that very book.....
My first Tintin was "The Red Sea Sharks" and I still have it in hardback
even though it is falling to bits....my mother didn¹t like my brothers and
me reading comic books as she thought they were not appropriate reading for
us!
One day she was going on a business trip with my father and because she was
leaving us for a few days she asked what we would like her to bring us
back...I immediately asked for a Tintin book and she couldn¹t refuse...
After that I was free to build my collection up and have always had a full
set wherever I live...
