Tag Archives: Tintin

Tintin Geographies from 1991

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

Looking back over the year there have been so many things I have wanted to spend more time working on – one of them was this idea of Tintin Geographies, which of course was prompted by the release of the … Continue reading →

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Tintin Geographies: A glimpse of the past

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

Tintin, a young Belgian investigative journalist who travels the world and has amazing adventures, is one of the most successful comic book characters ever made. Originally starting off as a weekly installment comic strip in the Belgian newspaper Le Petit … Continue reading →

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Tintin Geographies: Global Map

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Following initial thoughts, as mentioned in my first post about Tintin geographies, I am in the process of working through the Tintin books, and designing exercises to incorporate them into classroom teaching. But in the meantime I came across a … Continue reading →

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Geography with Tintin: Exploration through comics

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

While watching the BBC’s Tintin’s Adventures with Frank Gardner  which attempts to trace the journey of the first Tintin adventure (available on iplayer at the moment) I began to think about how the books could be used in the classroom. … Continue reading →

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