A Spanish translation of one of Tintin’s most famous tales, The Blue Lotus, by Antonio Altarriba has been withdrawn from bookshops after pressure from Hergé’s estate. Arriba had updated the comic to show Tintin in his 30s and having something of a midlife crisis, with plenty of graphic sex scenes. The estate claimed the Altarriba version of this particular tale, which was published to cash in on last year’s 100th anniversary of Remi’s birth, “perverted the essence of the personality” of Tintin, putting pressure on the publishers of The Pink Lotus, Edicions de Ponent, and its distributors to ensure it […]
