Well I must doff my hat too, even if I do not have one at this moment, in adoring tribute to a master storyteller and illustrator who enlivened my childhood and continues to transport me to wondrous colorful worlds of international intrigue and adventure to this day...
What catches one's eye immediately is the detail in the Tintin comics he drew, the scenes he brought to life and the wonderful expressions he had all his characters wear...and nothing can compare to his coloring in panel after panel, what wonderful miniatures he lovingly crafted with seemingly endless patience...
Tintin comics are around the world what maybe Dr. Seuss books and Peanuts comic strips are in the USA...legendary, iconic, indispensable as stories and a deep delightful endlessly entertaining world peopled by a cast of unique, idiosyncratic characters...
Almost every Tintin comic was a jewel for me, a wellspring of endless wonder and mystery that is the dream of any schoolboy who is seized by worlds of enchantment...the magic and aura of a Tolkeinesque world, just transported to relatively modern times.
If "Destination Moon"
and "Explorers on the Moon" 
were supreme examples of great artwork and some insightful research into space stations and rock
etry,Cigars of the Pharoah was enigmatic and exotically mysterious;
The Crab with the Golden Claws was hilarious what with Tintin's desert adventures and Titin in Tibet 
was a marvelous tale which involved all ingredients of a gripping story: a plane crash, a rescue mission, Tibet...and the Yeti...;
Flight 714 was spookyly futristic and "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun" 
had South American history woven in...All in all, what a feast, what a smorgasbord of visual and intellectual stimulation. Thank You Herge!
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