Tom McCarthy keeps track of Tintin developments so you don't have to...
March was an eventful month in Tintin Land. On the 21st Raymond Leblanc, founder of the magazine that brought out the cartoon adventures of Hergé's tufted boy reporter in weekly installments for three decades, died aged 92. The debonair, sport-loving publisher had played a vital role in Tintin's destiny: a wartime Resistance hero, he had single-handedly rehabilitated after World War Two the career and reputation of Hergé the "incivile" - indeed, some would say "collaborator".
Tom's Tintin and the Secret of Literature publishes in a couple of weeks. Holler for a review copy.