Borduria is a fictional country in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Sy
The Nazi German Heinkel He 118 used by Hergé to draw his airplane in 1939. The Swastika was replaced by another geometrical form.
The Calculus Affair is the eighteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from December 1954 to
Borduria
…in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Syldavia. Borduria is depicted in King Ottokar's Sceptre (1938–1939) and The Calculus Affair (1954–1956), and is referred to in Tintin and the Picaros (1975–1976). Another international rival is Khemed. In King Ottokar's Sceptre, Tintin reads…
Cover of the English edition
A Soviet tank destroyed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, one of the pivotal moments of the Cold War
The Cornavin Hotel, where Calculus stays before leaving to meet Professor Topolino
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters described The Calculus Affair as "Hergé's masterwork".