Tintin at the top
From cartoon to art icon: Erica Wagner on a boy’s journey
The world is divided, of course, into two cultural camps, and the chasm, perhaps, will now only deepen. I refer not to any religious or political arguments that might be plaguing the globe. No, I mean simply this: Tintin or Asterix? You can’t love both. You have to choose. That’s the way I’ve always seen it, anyway; and up until recently it seemed as if the Asterixers might be in the lead, what with The Mirror World of Asterix, a vast exhibition of the work of Goscinny and Uderzo held in Brussels last year.
But now we Tintinites (or Tintinophiles, or Hergélogues, as we are sometimes called) can hold our heads high. The Centre Pompidou in Paris, home of France’s Musée National d’Art Moderne — its…
