New Tintin book La face cachée d'Objectif Lune

I want this book. BBC TV used to show both the original Moon stories on Children's TV in the early 60s. I still remember the booming vocal intro: " Hershaaaay's Addddventurez of Tintin!" I wonder if it also influenced Gerry Anderson to name the best looking puppet he ever made Tintin. (I know it is a genuine word but...)
 
 

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Justo Miranda said:
There is a new project underway to publish the book, I just received two cover designs by Harry Edwood
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It appears you've been working on this book with Jacques Hiron and Harry Edwood... but will it be a pirate, or did you actually get Tintinimaginatio's (costly) approval?
 
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How react the Foundation Herge on this Book ?
i know they have trigger happy lawyers...
 
Stargazer said:
It appears you've been working on this book with Jacques Hiron and Harry Edwood... but will it be a pirate, or did you actually get Tintinimaginatio's (costly) approval?
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This is a very old project, in the year 2000 Jaques and I decided to prove that the rocket could have been manufactured using the technology available in 1952. The idea was so fun that we left everything to work on it. Over time we understood that it was necessary to explain why a small Mediterranean country had undertaken such a colossal undertaking. We invented the discovery in 1938 of a radioactive mineral in the Zimpalthes Mountains, during the war the Nazis appropriated the deposit and built the Uranmaschine in an underground facility.

The King of Syldavia in exile from London convinced the British that a commando operation would be necessary to prevent the Germans from building the Doomsday Weapon. When the time came to parachute in with his men, they managed to conquer the base, and he became a folk hero. With the Cold War, things got very the Russians because the Syldavia ore was a factor of strategic imbalance. And they came up with the idea of creating an international project for the peaceful use of atomic energy.

The rocket thing would never have been attempted if a scientist from Syldavia, a friend of Professor Calculus, had not sent him some samples of a very radiation-resistant microorganism that lived in the rocks under the ore deposit.

Calculus tested, centrifuged them, covered them with silicone and obtained an almost perfect insulator against radiation, the atomic engine project was underway, the idea of a trip to the moon was leaked to the press and no one could stop it.



It's been quite a while since we finished writing the full story, but since then the whole issue of publication has been a constant suffering for poor Jacques. Not even Mr. Trump has managed to overcome as many difficulties as he has.

I don't know anyone from his current publication team, I just hope to see the book published legally without some vampire lawyer knocking on my door at three in the morning.:)
 

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Is there actually going to be any new creative/intellectual (to put it charitably) material, or is it just a new hyper resolution extremely expanded color palette reprint?
 
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I had bet on that. Just to say how good you are. Congrats for the talent.
Myself can't draw a sketch without pooring ink all over. I am the Miro of industrial drafting :confused:
 
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Good to see Tintin books, great characters. Can folk suggest a good source of reasonably priced French language books please?

Not for me, for the 95 yo neighbour, her eyesight is not great but she spent a lot of years with her husband in France and remembers it fondly. Good to divert her with something that can allow her to reconnect.

I did get some from Amazon but frankly the selection is rather poor.

She does have one Tintin book.

Large print editions by pref please.

Spoken to the folk at "Librairie La Page" but they cannot tell me about font size.
 
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@Foo Fighter : Recently read that one that I never had a chance to review before. In French with large fonts. 2hr reading. New edition.

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It's an autobiographical text, testimony of the 1940 Nazi invasion of France by someone that would become the greatest figure of the French Resistance, losing his life in 1944 in the hands of the Guestapo.

Amazon has it from 4 to 10£

Hope your friend recover quickly.
 
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TomcatViP said:
@Foo Fighter : Recently read that one that I never had a chance to review before. In French with large fonts. 2hr reading. New edition.



It's an autobiographical text, testimony of the 1940 Nazi invasion of France by someone that would become the greatest figure of the French Resistance, losing his life in 1944 in the hands of the Guestapo.

Amazon has it from 4 to 10£

Hope your friend recover quickly.
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Ta mate, I shall have a go for that.
 
Michel Van said:
i startet with Rotring and switch to fine-liner now Sakura micron and Tachikawa drawing pen with german ink
on paper for moment i use Fabriano.

on polyester paper, who good is for scanner and stick vallejo color on it ?
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I can't find a distributor that manufactures this type of paper with a thickness of less than 96 microns, the reason is that the main application at this time is to load photocopiers or automatic printers, and the paper must be thick. I have found someone who manufactures it in 050 at an astronomical price (Polydraw).

The Tintin drawings were made on 16-micron paper... Do you know if you can find something less than 050 thick?
 
Justo Miranda said:
Ed Moulinsart
They have already accepted the publication of some of my drawings
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Consider yourself lucky, even privileged: the Moulinsart estate (now Tintinimaginatio) hardly EVER accepts anything that was not done by Hergé or his own studio. My good friend Yves Rodier draws Tintin stories with the same quality as the master, but neither they nor Casterman want his work (the latter mainly to avoid trouble with the former...)

Justo Miranda said:
It's been quite a while since we finished writing the full story, but since then the whole issue of publication has been a constant suffering for poor Jacques. Not even Mr. Trump has managed to overcome as many difficulties as he has.
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I do not know Jacques very well, and I could be wrong, but his posts of the latter years seem to indicate he is far more interested in documenting his seaside resort's history than working on Tintin books.
Also I sent him a greetings card I made especially for him two years ago and he didn't even bother replying... So even though he is still in my contacts I have no contact with him and am not sure I still want any!
 
My own take at how to do better than NERVA (for what's its worth).

On one end is hydrogen, plenty of energy. On the other: a nuclear reactor, also full of energy. What sucks in NERVA is the chain of tranmission between the two.
There are "prompt neutrons" and "fission fragments" emitted from the reactor, ok ?
-NERVA uses the fission fragments to heat that hydrogen, and runs head on into the second law of thermodynamic
-CERMET, twisted ribbon, pebble bed, liquid, gaseous, droplet, vapor, plasma cores tries to change the reactor to get more heat into the LH2, up to 20 000 K. Specific impulse in theory jumps from 800 to 2500 seconds... except most of them are beyond the state of the art.

-Pulsed NTR and Fission Fragment rocket both turn the tables

-Fission Fragment, as its name emplies, just shot them through a magnetic nozzle. No more LH2 to heat, no more Fourier, end result: crazy specific impulse of 500 000 seconds.

-Pulsed NTR sticks with the LH2 but heat it with a TRIGA reactor pulse's prompt neutrons... at the atomic level, so again, no more 2nd law of thermodynamic. And another sky-high specific impulse.

Bottom line: Professor Tournesol / Calculus probably started with NERVA, but realized its weakness. And in the process, he got the PNTR / FFR intuition... and I swear, with any of the two or a combination of both, you could really build and fly that giant nuclear V-2 to the Moon.

Note that Edward Teller invented the TRIGA pulsed reactor circa 1958, meanwhile ROVER started in 1955; and once you get TRIGA + ROVER = then PNTR is not that far remote.
 
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Stargazer said:
Consider yourself lucky, even privileged: the Moulinsart estate (now Tintinimaginatio) hardly EVER accepts anything that was not done by Hergé or his own studio. My good friend Yves Rodier draws Tintin stories with the same quality as the master, but neither they nor Casterman want his work (the latter mainly to avoid trouble with the former...)


I do not know Jacques very well, and I could be wrong, but his posts of the latter years seem to indicate he is far more interested in documenting his seaside resort's history than working on Tintin books.
Also I sent him a greetings card I made especially for him two years ago and he didn't even bother replying... So even though he is still in my contacts I have no contact with him and am not sure I still want any!
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I'm not as aware as you are of the internal politics of the bande dessinée, but I can assure you that Jacques has spent several years of his life fighting for the project, he has tried it in comics, on internet forums, in art exhibitions and in at least six publishing groups. Four years ago, he was even on the verge of getting a scale model of the rocket, but the numbers didn't work out.

We have no commercial interest in the world of Tintin, we are amateurs, but in no way parasites on the fame of others.
 
Michel Van said:
on Nuclear engine with liquid, gaseous, droplet, vapor, plasma cores, NOT as OPEN system
otherwise there no more Syldavia after launch !
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The reaction mass was NON-RADIOACTIVE superheated water vapor, the combustion chamber and the Venturi were insulated against radiation by the invention of Calculus.
I designed the engine with the technical supervision of an engineer from the French submarine nuclear force.
;)
 

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Justo Miranda said:
I'm not as aware as you are of the internal politics of the bande dessinée, but I can assure you that Jacques has spent several years of his life fighting for the project, he has tried it in comics, on internet forums, in art exhibitions and in at least six publishing groups. Four years ago, he was even on the verge of getting a scale model of the rocket, but the numbers didn't work out.
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I didn't question Jacques's past involvement in that project, I just said that despite being in his online contacts for several years, the only posts from him I saw in my timeline were about his seaside city, its history, its boats, etc.
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We have no commercial interest in the world of Tintin, we are amateurs, but in no way parasites on the fame of others.
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???????
What on Earth in my post gave you the impression that I saw you guys as parasites? I certainly never said, nor even thought anything of the sort!
You also seem to miss the fact that my post was laudatory (having one's work accepted by Moulinsart is quite a remarkable and formidable feat). I was in NO WAY criticizing you, your work, or your involvement in that project, and never implied in any way that you could be trying to make money off anyone or profit from them, and I'm sorry that you understood my post in such a wrong manner!
 
Archibald said:
My own take at how to do better than NERVA (for what's its worth).

On one end is hydrogen, plenty of energy. On the other: a nuclear reactor, also full of energy. What sucks in NERVA is the chain of tranmission between the two.
There are "prompt neutrons" and "fission fragments" emitted from the reactor, ok ?
-NERVA uses the fission fragments to heat that hydrogen, and runs head on into the second law of thermodynamic
-CERMET, twisted ribbon, pebble bed, liquid, gaseous, droplet, vapor, plasma cores tries to change the reactor to get more heat into the LH2, up to 20 000 K. Specific impulse in theory jumps from 800 to 2500 seconds... except most of them are beyond the state of the art.

-Pulsed NTR and Fission Fragment rocket both turn the tables

-Fission Fragment, as its name emplies, just shot them through a magnetic nozzle. No more LH2 to heat, no more Fourier, end result: crazy specific impulse of 500 000 seconds.

-Pulsed NTR sticks with the LH2 but heat it with a TRIGA reactor pulse's prompt neutrons... at the atomic level, so again, no more 2nd law of thermodynamic. And another sky-high specific impulse.

Bottom line: Professor Tournesol / Calculus probably started with NERVA, but realized its weakness. And in the process, he got the PNTR / FFR intuition... and I swear, with any of the two or a combination of both, you could really build and fly that giant nuclear V-2 to the Moon.

Note that Edward Teller invented the TRIGA pulsed reactor circa 1958, meanwhile ROVER started in 1955; and once you get TRIGA + ROVER = then PNTR is not that far remote.
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The problem with all these projects was always insulation against radiation, we should also include Project Pluto.
 
Stargazer said:
I didn't question Jacques's past involvement in that project, I just said that despite being in his online contacts for several years, the only posts from him I saw in my timeline were about his seaside city, its history, its boats, etc.

???????
What on Earth in my post gave you the impression that I saw you guys as parasites? I certainly never said, nor even thought anything of the sort!
You also seem to miss the fact that my post was laudatory (having one's work accepted by Moulinsart is quite a remarkable and formidable feat). I was in NO WAY criticizing you, your work, or your involvement in that project, and never implied in any way that you could be trying to make money off anyone or profit from them, and I'm sorry that you understood my post in such a wrong manner!
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Error of interpretation, I was not referring to your post but to the point of view of Moulinsart's lawyers, quite justified because of the numerous attempts to infringe the copyright they are supposed to protect.:)
 
Justo Miranda said:
The reaction mass was NON-RADIOACTIVE superheated water vapor, the combustion chamber and the Venturi were insulated against radiation by the invention of Calculus.
I designed the engine with the technical supervision of an engineer from the French submarine nuclear force.
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is this a ring shaped nuclear reactor with high neutron output to heat water to supercritical state ?

by the way check your PM, there message.
 

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