CoastConFan Blog: covers

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Great Snakes! More TinTin Covers

Just when I thought I had a handle on faux Tintin covers …

They keep turning up. Fans still love Tintin pastiches and continue to grind out covers for nonexistent books with tantalizing titles that never were. I have slowly accumulated a few more Tintin covers to put together another Tintin blog entry, only to find that there is a fellow on the web that has the most amazing accumulation of Tintin tribute covers as well as a number of political/satire covers all in one spot.

I actually haven’t been aggressively pursuing more Tintin covers, but when an interesting one turned up, I tossed into a pile for an additional entry. In this blog post, I have scattered about a few “new” covers that I turned up earlier, rather than plug them in to the categories I had previously established in older blog entries. But I have hit the mother lode.

Dave Ahl (SwapMeetDave) contacted me recently to let me know he had a huge trove of Tintin covers the like of which I have never seen. He was right! Let me caution you, SwapMeetDave’s collection of ersatz and unauthorized Tintin covers number in the hundreds, so expect to be overwhelmed.

I have to take my hat off to this diligent collector of Tintin covers as Dave Ahl has surpassed my expectation of just how many covers might be out there. I invite you all to go to his website to view his amazing collection – just use the links provided below. CoastConFan

Original Tintin cover variants and other language editions from SwapMeetDave

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Herge/Tintin-cvr-sm/index.htm

Ersatz Tintin covers from SwapmeetDave

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Herge/Tintin-cvr-sm/

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Herge/Tintin-cvr-sm-1/Tin-Cvr-Sim.htm

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Herge/Tintin-cvr-sm-2/Tin-Cvr-Diff.htm

SwapMeetDave also has a cover contest for faux Tintin covers created by fans and he’d like submissions. http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Herge/Tintin-cvr-contest/Design-Cover.htm

Tintin Postal Items and Philately from SwapMeetDave

http://swapmeetdave.com/Herge/Philately/index.htm

Previous CoastConFan blog posts on Tintin covers that I have made over the years:

TinTin Covers 1 – The Reality

Tintin Covers 2 -- Lovecraft Connection

Tintin Covers 3 – Weird Science

Tintin Covers 4 – Politics, Parody, Pastiches, and Irony

Classic Animated Tintin – CoC Game Ideas and Shameless Escapism

Lovecraft Tintin Books – Two Great Tastes, That Taste Great Together

OK, this last cover is a cheat as it’s not Herge or Tintin inspired but a Lovecraft and Dr Seuss inspired mashup – so I cheat at lists, so what.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

TINTIN COVERS 2 – The Lovecraft Connection

Previously, I posted Tintin Covers 1 – The Realty, about the sale of original Hergé artwork in Paris. Now I want to show you some fan-made covers that are strictly non-canon. I have been a fan of H. P. Lovecraft since I was young, although not as long as having been a TinTin fan. But my enjoyment of both goes way back, nonetheless.

Fans have produced their own covers for nonexistent books, supposing a Lovecraft – Hergé connection that never was. Fan art is a mainstay of fandom and no less than in Tintin and Lovecraft fandom, so mashups were inevitable.

These covers don’t undermine either genre, but rather show support for existing works. Enjoy these covers in the playful spirit they were created. It’s a pity that the complete books never really existed, but it’s nice to think they might in a parallel universe.

We no long have H. P. Lovecraft or Hergé producing stories, but their corpus of works have been influential for a good portion of the 20^th century and into the 21^st. I hope that in presenting these fan-made covers that people will be influenced to read the original works of both H. P. Lovecraft and Georges Remi a.k.a. Hergé.

One of the most prolific of the fan Tintin/Lovecraft mashup artists is Muzski, who is actually Murray Groat. You can see more of his works at DeviantArt.

This post is a follow up to the one I made previously about the same subject, Lovecraft Tintin Books – Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together, February 25, 2011, and I felt there was so much good material out there, that I had to expand on the idea.

TINTIN COVERS 1 – The Reality

TINTIN COVERS 2 – The Lovecraft Connection

TINTIN COVERS 3 – Weird Science

TINTIN COVERS 4 – Politics, Parody, Pastiches, and Irony

TINTIN COVERS 5 -- GREAT SNAKES! MORE TINTIN COVERS

I had to post this Peanuts/Lovecraft cover, although it is dangerously close to Cutethulu. I always thought there was something eldritch about the Great Pumpkin.

UPDATE 2014: a few more Tintin Cthonian covers below for you to ponder:

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Michael W. Moses Pottery Site of unearthly pottery that brings to mind H. P. Lovecraft and the drawings of Ernst Haeckel

Propnomicon's Site a site dedicated to making props for Call of Cthulhu RPG

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CITY OF DUST Primarily a site about New Mexico ghost towns and history

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana An interesting view of comics from a Turkish point of view

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Tom Banwell—Leather and Resin Projects Clever props and masks

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