Le Petit Vingtième
Le Petit Vingtième was the children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle . Le Petit Vingtième published the comics by the draftsman Hergé (e.g. Tim and Struppi ). The newspaper appeared every Thursday.
history
Le Vingtième Siècle was a Catholic Conservative newspaper that was published in Brussels . Hergé , the creator of Tintin , worked there in 1925 , whose first stories also appeared in Le Petit Vingtième .
In 1928 Pastor Norbert Wallez began to add a children's supplement to the newspaper. The supplement Le Petit Vingtième was created. It was published every Thursday and was eight pages long. Hergé became the editor-in-chief. On November 1, 1928, the first edition appeared with a comic strip drawn by himself and the newspaper's sports editor, Les Aventures de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet . Only a few months later, on January 10, 1929, the first Tintin comic story appeared. On January 23, 1929, the newspaper was extended from 8 to 16 pages.
At the end of the first three Tintin stories, the arrival of Tintin from the Soviet Union was staged for the newspaper at the Gare du Nord in Brussels .
In the next few years, more comic stories appeared, such as Stups and Steppke or Paul and Virginia .
In February 1940 the newspaper was also translated into Dutch . In May 1940, the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle had to be closed because of the Second World War . So Le Petit Vingtième no longer existed.
Tintin Publications
- Tim in the Land of the Soviets : January 10, 1929 - May 8, 1930: 1000 copies
- Tim in the Congo : June 5, 1930 - June 11, 1931: Tim's arrival on July 9, 1931 at the Brussels North Station (110 pages)
- Tim in America : September 3, 1931 - October 20, 1932 (120 pages)
- The Pharaoh's Cigars (published as Tim in the Orient ): December 8, 1932 - August 2, 1934 (124 pages)
- The Blue Lotus : August 9, 1934 - October 17, 1935 (124 pages)
- The Arumbaya Fetish : December 5, 1935-25. February 1937
- The Black Island : April 15, 1937 - June 16, 1938 (124 pages)
- King Ottokar's scepter (published as Tim in Syldavien ): August 4, 1938 - August 10, 1939 (106 pages)
- In the realm of black gold : September 28, 1939 - May 8, 1940 (unfinished)
Nudge-and-nudge publications
Between 1930 and 1940 around 310 nudge-and-nudge comics were published in Le Petit Vingtième . All in black and white . Two albums were published by the newspaper's own publisher Edition du Petit Vingtième . Most of them later with Casterman too .
Albums with original title:
- Quick et Flupke gamins de Bruxelles , 1931
- Les nouveaux exploits de Quick et Flupke gamins de Bruxelles: 2ème série , 1932
more publishments
- Paul and Virginia among the Long-Eared Indians , 1934 (there were several similar versions of this story thatappearedin Le Petit Vingtième )
Others
In 2011, Tintin read the newspaper in the film The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn .
literature
- Benoît Peeters : Hergé - A life for the comics. Carlsen Verlag , Reinbek 1983
