{"id":1412,"date":"2009-03-09T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2009-03-09T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:24:45","slug":"cnn-reports-on-real-tintin-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"CNN Reports on Real Tintin Submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/03\/06\/eod.luxury.submarines\/index.html?iref=newssearch\" target=\"_blank\">this article on CNN.com<\/a> about &#8220;winged luxury submarines,&#8221; the first thing I thought of was that awesome shark submarine from the Tintin book, <em>Red Rackham&#8217;s Treasure<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1413 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tintin.jpg\" alt=\"tintin\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to note that the article <em>did<\/em> in fact mention Tintin.\u00a0 I was really surprised, though, to note that the Tintin book mentioned was one I&#8217;d never heard of: <em>Tintin and the Lake of Sharks<\/em>.\u00a0 This is because apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tintin_and_the_Lake_of_Sharks\" target=\"_blank\">this Tintin book<\/a> is not one penned by Herg\u00e9, but rather a book made to look like stills from an animated Tintin movie written by Belgian cartoonist &#8220;<a title=\"Greg (comics)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_%28comics%29\">Greg&#8221;<\/a> (Michel Regnier), a friend of Herg\u00e9.\u00a0 Out of curiosity, I tracked down some sample pages from <em>Lake of Sharks<\/em> and although I was disappointed to find that the submarine in question is actually just the same shark sub from Red Rackham, it&#8217;s kind of interesting to see Tintn art done in a style designed to ape the look of animation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"tintin1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tintin1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1415 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tintin1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"tintin1\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Herg\u00e9-drawn Tintin exhibits a differential between the way the figures and the way the background are drawn (much discussed in <em>Understanding Comics<\/em>), but stylistically they cohere quite well.\u00a0 In the animation-style page above though, this disconnect is, to my eye, just too great and produces an odd effect.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta wonder about the reference to <em>Lake of Sharks<\/em> in the original article.\u00a0 Was the author a hardcore Tintin fan who used this opportunity to show off his knowledge of obscure Tintin books&#8230; of maybe someone who knew nothing at all about Tintin and just maybe got <em>Lake of Sharks<\/em> from an errant google search?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw this article on CNN.com about &#8220;winged luxury submarines,&#8221; the first thing I thought of was that awesome shark submarine from the Tintin book, Red Rackham&#8217;s Treasure: I was surprised to note that the article did in fact mention Tintin.\u00a0 I was really surprised, though, to note that the Tintin book mentioned was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1412\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}