The Blue Lotus
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The Blue Lotus is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's
Cover of the English edition
Japanese soldiers enter Shenyang during the Mukden Incident in 1931, one of the events of the contemporary Sino-Japanese War depicted in The Blue Lotus.
The Blue Lotus on the front cover of an edition of Le Petit Vingtième.
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters considered The Blue Lotus to be a turning point in The Adventures of Tintin "both graphically and ideologically".
The Broken Ear
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The Broken Ear is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its childr
The Blue Lotus
…while news of the book led the Chinese political leader Chiang Kai-shek to invite Hergé to visit China. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with The Broken Ear, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1946, The Blue Lotus was partially re-drawn and coloured by…
Cover of the English edition
Paraguayan troops in Alihuatá, 1932, during the Chaco War
A scene from The Broken Ear on the cover of Le Petit Vingtième
The Chimú statuette from the Cinquantenaire Museum that was copied into the adventure by Hergé.