Letters

Tintin in CMAJ

Thomas J. McGuire
CMAJ June 21, 2005 172 (13) 1665-1665-d; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1050009

With Hergé's approval, Frederic Tuten wrote Tintin in the New World,1 wherein Tintin meets the seductive Clavdia in Peru. One night, “sighs float to the ceiling ... a blue glow emanates from the bed center ... two animals collide and adhere.” Tintin is cured!

Young coauthors Antoine Cyr and Louis-Olivier Cyr might wait a few years before trying this book, but I bet their more senior coauthor Claude Cyr would love it.2 The familiar characters appear, and the inside cover art is by Roy Lichtenstein.

References

  1. 1.
    Tuten F. Tintin in the new world. New York: William Morrow & Co.; 1993.
  2. 2.
    Cyr A, Cyr LO, Cyr C. Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist. CMAJ 2004;171(12):1433-4.