Whilst checking out yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, I discovered an interesting tidbit about Georges Remi’s most popular creation, Tintin, especially for those who collect original art.
One page of original art from the hands of Remi, aka Herge, can range in cost from $107,000-202,000. What’s more, Belgian collector Gaetan Laloy (who sells Tintin memorabilia in his Bedemania shop in Brussels) owns a signed page from a long-abandoned series starring Tom Colby, valued at nearly $400,000 (200,000 pounds).
May 30th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Around 150 million Tintin albums sold to date does rather put Jim Lee’s popularity into perspective.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Over 200 million, according to the article.
And even THAT figure pales compared to the more than 300 million Asterix books sold to date!
To compare, John Jackson Miller’s site estimates in about 150 million the amount of issues of Amazing Spider-Man sold to date. And that’s a cheap comic magazine, not an expensive hardcover album like Tintin and Asterix books are!
Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)