Matt Forsythe

Anthony Lane has a nice overview of Tintin in last week’s New Yorker. Sadly, the piece didn’t make it online. Writes Lane: There is no sex in Tintin…

Tintin passes increasing portions of his life with an unmarried seaman, yet it seldom occurs to us to question their rapport. Tintin never has a girlfriend, nor does he express the need for one, and that absence is part of his greater mystery…. Tintin, nominally a reporter, never receives a salary nor files a story.

We receive these stories as children and never think to question them well into adulthood.