While I was housesitting a 15th-century farmhouse in historical Gascony, with a backyard view of the snow-capped Pyrennees, I decided one bracing morning over a café du lait to hire a bike and make a pilgrimage to one of France’s oddest pilgrimage sites: Notre Dame des Cyclistes. Looking decidedly uncool in my fuzzy Patagonia jacket, [...]
Author Archives: John Edwards
Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
January 2, 2012 – 11:38 am
Tintin is a god to me. Surely this imaginary globetrotter seems real to most of us. He is also the most beloved of all comic-book heros worldwide – except in America, where he is inevitably confused with the dog, Rin Tin Tin - as well as the first literary boho “backpacker.” Too, Tintin’s second book, Tintin [...]
