HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERGÉ

if he didn't died in 1983 he would have become 100 today. i love comicbooks since i was a kid. a funny desease i shared with my uncle who was neither the brother of my mother nore the brother of my dad. i wonder if these things are in your genes or if you just pick them up ... anyway, this uncle, a grown up man, loved comic books. and he shared them with me. i was fascinated by these books you could understand even though you weren't really able to read. they were so much fun. and i was totally aware of the different qualities of these books. i always had a faible for the french ones. i loved - and still love - goscinny and franquin (even though i still do not know hoe to pronounce that correctly) but while i am mostly fascinated of the story here, hergé totally got me with his style of drawing. the so called "ligne claire" and of course my favourite character is not smartypants tintin, i prefer the always grumpy, and very colourful cursing captain haddock. and i think he has a tiny little alcohol problem but who could invent something like "billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles" when he is sober???

so todays question is, did you read comic books when you were little? do you still read them? what was your favourite? what is? and if you do not read them anymore, what made you stop and do you miss them?

ok, that was more than one question, but who cares =D

my all time favourite episode is number 17 explorers on the moon

so of course the song of today strikes twice. ligne claire and spacetravel

artist: the b-52's
song: planet claire
album: the b-52's

ahhhahhahhahh

she came from planet claire
i knew she came from there
she drove a Plymouth Satellite
faster than the speed of light

planet claire has pink air
all the trees are red
noone ever dies there
noone has a head

ahhhahhhahhahh

some say she's from mars
or one of the seven stars
that shine after 3:30 in the morning
WELL SHE ISN'T

ahhhahhhahhahhahhahh