Hergé's Adventures of... Momus?

[imomus]

Sometimes, adventuring through exotic lands, I feel like Tintin. Sometimes I even dress like him. And sometimes, out of the blue, people send me mock Tintin covers doctored to feature me. This one is courtesy of Staffan Millqvist.

Actually, when I'm cussing through my megaphone at the Whitney, I feel a lot more like Captain Haddock, whose splendidly baroque litany of insults, curses and racial epithets can be found here.

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[imomus.livejournal.com]

You know, the source of Captain Haddock's creative blasphemies is the need to evoke ultimate obscenity while remaining pure and printable. You have this nautical man who clearly swears... well, like a nautical man. But he's in a book for children. So you make his swearing so outlandish that it sounds both outrageously dirty and totally clean. These days you'd probably just have him say "Fucking fuckers!" or "Fucking hell, fuck it, you fucking cunts!"

[imomus.livejournal.com]

And while we're on Ugandan affairs, it might be the moment to mention the obscene parodies of Tintin created by Jan Bucquoy.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Mom? MOM?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You don't even want to know what Bucquoy has him do to Snowy... I remember I was at a party in Aberdeen once, and someone started passing a Bucquoy Tintin book around the room, and each person in turn collapsed into paroxysms on the floor. And I was thinking "It can't be that funny! I won't laugh, whatever it is!" But it was, and I fell onto the floor in turn.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Spot? SPOT?

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Ugandan Momus (http://nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/design/17snap.html?hp&ex=1142571600&en=f788f29b7e560530&ei=5094&partner=homepage)

[loverboy82.livejournal.com]

haha, totally!

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

His trousers are fabulous.