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Tintin Art work set to make history

March 29th 2008 00:10
Comic Book Art Earns Big Bucks

Tintin artwork
Tintin - This is not the piece on auction



For decades comic book art has been viewed as nothing more than a novelty item by many in the art community. Relegated to the sidelines, meeting with little respect despite the obvious influence it has had on modern art.

In the last few years that has begun to change and now the Euro-market is leading a revolution that places graphic illustrations into the arena of “fine art”.

France24.com is reporting that some classic renderings are beginning to fetch higher and higher prices at auction houses. From the site:

"It's a booming market, we've got buyers from all over Europe. People are no longer ashamed to say they collect BD," said Eric Leroy, expert at the Artcurial gallery and auction house.

The latest of these is “a 1932 oil painted by the Belgian author Herge for the cover of "Tintin in America" is the star item at a one-off sale of 650 comic originals Saturday in Paris, with a starting price of 280,000 euros (440,000 dollars)”.

Herge tintin
Tintin creator Herge at work in his studio



Along with Herge’s Tintin works “an original ink drawing of Lucky Luke, by the Belgian cartoonist Maurice de Bevere, or Morris, has a starting price of 10,000 euros.”

Like many being a child of the 70’s I have always appreciated the care and aesthetic pleasures of visual storytellers. As they say “it’s a collectors market” and in the new millennium comic book drawings are destined to only continue increasing in price.

After all these are treasured memories from childhood that are now able to be physically represented by those who can afford to purchase a slice of pop culture history.
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