Today in Comics History, June 6, 1:40 PM: First Rock Group on the Moon

from Tintin v.14: Explorers on the Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner

Today in Comics History, June 5, 7:20 PM: Tintin conquers the moon with superior tank power

from Tintin v.14: Explorers on the Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner

Today in Comics History, June 4, 8:30 AM: Explorers on the Moon; alcoholics on the Earth

from Tintin v.14: Explorers on the Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner

Today in Comics History, June 3, 9:45 PM: Already there are screw-ups...on the Moon!

Hey, how's this voyage goin', Professor?


from Tintin v.14: Explorers on the Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner

Today in Comics History, June 3, 2:00 AM: We are detective / We are select / We are detective / Come to collect

Uh-oh! Space stowaways!


from Tintin v.14: Explorers on the Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner
Meanwhile, Captain Haddock certainly has his space priorities straight:


Didja forget something about space, Captain?

Today in Comics History, June 3, 1:34 AM: I said lunch, not launch

from Tintin v.13: Destination Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner


"All Systems Go/The Launch" from the Apollo 13 soundtrack (MCA, June 1995), composed by James Horner

Today in Comics History, June 3, 1:06 AM: The waiting is the hardest part

The adventure continues! And they haven't even gotten off the ground yet!


from Tintin v.13: Destination Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner

Today in Comics History, June 3, 1:04 AM: Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

(Previously on Tintin: Destination Moon)

And now....


from Tintin v.13: Destination Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner
Only thirty short minutes to launch! Why, that's just enough time to watch an episode of Red Dwarf!

Today in Comics History, June 2: Tonight's rocket ship launch is sponsored by Ralston Purina

Remember one week ago when we saw this launch date announced?


from Tintin v.13: Destination Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner
Why, that's tonight...er, early tomorrow morning, but this happens today:


All hail the mighty checkerboard missile! Nf3 Nf6! Stay up late to see it blast off, because it's not a SpaceX rocket!

Today in Comics History, May 26: "Seven days", was all she wrote / A kind of ultimatum note

In just one short week: Professor Calculus's Moon Rocket to the moon blasts off!


from Tintin v.13: Destination Moon (Little Brown, September 1976), script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner
Be here on the night of June 2 or be tintinabulated, true believers!

Today in Comics History, May 22: Happy birthday, Hergé!

Born on this day in 1907: comics creator and illustrator Georges Prosper Remi, better known to us as Hergé, the creator of Tintin (and Snowy, and Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus, and Thomson and Thompson), The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko, Quick & Flupke, and more!

Here he is (on the right) along with Edgar-Pierre Jacobs, Hergé collaborator and creator of Blake and Mortimer.


cover of The Adventures of Hergé (Drawn + Quarterly, November 2011); pencils, inks, and colors by Stanislas Barthélémy
Happy birthday, Hergé!

Today in Comics History, May 12-18: These...are The Days of the Week

from The Adventures of Tintin v. 16: Destination Moon (Methuen, 1959); script, pencils, and inks by Hergé; translation by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner

Same Story, Different Cover: Blistering Barnacles!

L: Le Petit Vingtième #32 (August 9, 1934), cover art by Hergé, featuring the first serialized segment of Le Lotus bleu (The Blue Lotus) in its original 1934 version
R: Le Lotus bleu, first edition of the redrawn and colorized 1946 version, cover art by Hergé

(Click picture to Haddocksize)

The 1946 cover art was the standard design for editions of The Blue Lotus through 2006, when this "painted" re-colored cover debuted:



See also.

Waiter, please take away these ten thousand spoons when all I need ten thousand forks

All that talk and YouTube videos yesterday about one of my favorite topics — waffles — made me a mite peckish for those delicious hot 'n' crispy breakfast treats, so it was off today into Manhattan to Petite Abeille, my favorite Belgian restaurant in the Big Apple. How Belgian is it? So Belgian that Hercule Poirot eats here.

In fact, I was so hungry that I vowed to eat

10,000 WAFFLES!

So, come along with me, won't you, to eat 10,000 Waffles! Or, as they say in Belgium, "Volg me en eet tienduizendtalwafels." Make sure you keep count along with me, okay?

One of the best things about Petite Abeille is their exclusive Belgian waitstaff. Here, a young waiter takes my order, then disappears for six months into Tibet with his fluffy white dog.


Ah, the menu! Or, as we say in Belgium, the "menu". And hey, look, Bumblebee from the Teen Titans is on it. I wonder how much she makes for that endorsement deal.


Ah ha! Voila! 'Ere is, as you say, le waffle section. I zhall 'ave ten thouzhand of zese, s'il vous plait! Eight thousand with whipped cream, fifteen hundred with nutella, and five hundred with speculoos.


All good restaurants have some form of entertainment to keep you amused while the specialty chefs in the kitchen are preparing your beautifully handcrafted meal. And if you're ordering ten thousand of them, you're gonna have a little bit of a wait. That's why I'm lucky that Petite Abeille offers a lending library of Tintin paperbacks, in both English and French! I think I'll choose this Hergé classic to while away my waffle-anticipatory wait.


There's always high adventure, action, thrills and laffs at Marlinspike Hall! And this special edition of Tintin is actually scratch 'n' sniff! Let's see what this page smells like...mmmmmm, Captain Haddock's whisky!


Don't fill up on bread! That's how they get you.


Hey, who ordered mac 'n' cheese for an appetizer? Oh well, it looks delicious! Nom nom nom nom nom!


It's always a good idea to choose a beverage that compliments your meal. I intensely consultated with Petite Abeille's sommelier, who informed me with not even a tiny bit of snootiness that white wine goes with fish, and red wine goes with meat, but waffles are best complimented with a fine local Belgian brew. What the heck, bring me a bucket of the stuff!


I think I drank it too fast. (hic)


Hoorah! Waffle #1 has arrived! Mark that down...waffle number one. Let's get started on it right now!


Mmmmmm...that was good. But I'm kinda full now. How many more do I have to eat?


I think I better take the rest of them "to go."


Luckily, when I was heading home, I saw the Rickshaw Nice Dumplings van! Yummmm...I'm so hungry, I'm going to eat ten thousand dumplings!