tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post3286971633735959918..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Tintin My Herofusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-57309608427706584672006-12-19T23:08:00.000-05:002006-12-19T23:08:00.000-05:00Good to know. Tintin does well in New York partly...Good to know. Tintin does well in New York partly because The Strand carries multiple copies all over the place. Ditto Barnes & Ignoble. I guess the real question may be whether or not there's any really good manga for children out there. I haven't located any. This is a post-worthy question and one I should ask pronto.fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-56668497563489716362006-12-18T22:57:00.000-05:002006-12-18T22:57:00.000-05:00Asterix is a shelf-sitter at my library -- and th...Asterix is a shelf-sitter at my library -- and the material selectors sent us two copies of every issue! I'm about ready to weed them. Tintin has a few fans. Disney comics aren't circulating very well, either. The younger kids want Manga and other Japanese-style books just like their older siblings. (and parents in our area can't get over their training that comics are BAD. But if it's Japanese, it's foreign liter-a-ture. and okay. go figure.)<br /><br />Now, Babymouse, that's another story. (local author makes good.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-3695832407457205872006-12-18T20:28:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:28:00.000-05:00Fun Fact: in his recent review of "Apocalypto" in ...Fun Fact: in his recent review of "Apocalypto" in <i>The New Yorker</i>, Anthony Lane points out that the "human sacrifice" scene in the film was lifted directly out of the Tintin adventure "Prisoners of the Sun."<br /><br />Hmmm. A great hero, indeed!Brookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06949700159593843060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-78318110425449275602006-12-18T12:36:00.000-05:002006-12-18T12:36:00.000-05:00AsteRIX! AsteRIX! AsteRIX! The single greatest ...AsteRIX! AsteRIX! AsteRIX! The single greatest reward for learning French (translating puns is tricky.)<br /><br />Puis-je? Puis-je?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-45073357891852925742006-12-18T10:50:00.000-05:002006-12-18T10:50:00.000-05:00I haven't read it, but you probably can't go wrong...I haven't read it, but you probably can't go wrong with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. <br /><br />Seriously...I haven't read every single volume, but they're all fun. I don't think you could go wrong with just choosing any at random and building your collection that way. It doesn't really matter in what order you read them.<br /><br />I don't know if you are the one in charge of ordering, but if you need to convince someone to order the series, I remember that Jim Trelease has some good things to say about Tintin in his Read Aloud Handbook (in his section on comics and the benefit of reading comics).Jennifer Schultzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612115213309097823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-4141417070929039282006-12-18T10:21:00.000-05:002006-12-18T10:21:00.000-05:00Excellent! Just the kind of information I was loo...Excellent! Just the kind of information I was looking for. Is there any volume you'd suggest a person start with?fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-36847336513496331852006-12-18T09:50:00.000-05:002006-12-18T09:50:00.000-05:00Well, I can only tell you my experience with our c...Well, I can only tell you my experience with our collected volumes of Tintin. We have the Three in One series published by Little, Brown (3 vols in one bound volume). We have excellent circulation statistics for our Tintin collection. We have 3 in 1s as old as 1979 and the last one we bought has a publication date of 1992.<br /><br />For volumes that are almost 15 years old, they've held up pretty well. My main complaint is that the binding is the "stitching" kind in the middle, and the older ones are getting loose. We can patch it up, but I just really don't like that kind of binding.<br /><br />The single volume ones published by Last Gasp have held up beautifully. It's more expensive, of course, to buy the single volumes, but they are holding up better, and they look nicer, too.<br /><br />Just my $0.02.Jennifer Schultzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612115213309097823noreply@blogger.com