"Blistering Barnacles!"

I read Steven Spielberg is releasing a Tintin movie. Filmadaptations seldom live up to their source material, but I'll keep my fingerscrossed. Tintin was a childhood friend and I look forward to reuniting withhim.
I first encountered Tintin in the pages of Children'sDigest. Every month, an issue of the digest-sized magazine would arrive inmy mailbox, filled with puzzles, games, and stories but the first feature Iwould turn to was the Tintin comic strip. Belgian artist Georges Remi, underthe...