Tintin-itus!

The other week, Rachel's place of work took their entire staff (all 10 of them) on a day trip to Bruges in Belgium as a "thank you" for their hard work over the last year or so. Knowing that Belgium is the home of Tintin, I asked Rachel (if she had time) to see if she could pick me up some Tintin memorabilia.

She brought me home the awesome sketch pictured above, which is actually a mouse mat but I'm going to get it framed anyway.

I've said before on this blog that I'm a big Tintin fan and although I don't talk about it much here he was one of my main inspirations (along with Clark Kent) for entering the field of journalism at the young age of 18.

As well as owning several Tintin books (including the controversial Tintin In The Congo and a French language guide to the world of Tintin), I have some Tintin crockery in the French dresser in the dining room and a pair of old Tintin: Boy Reporter socks I picked up in a Tintin shop in Paris many years ago, but none of my collections (be it comic books, Star Wars or Doctor Who related) could even come close to rivaling this Tintin superfan's magnificent collection:



The guy even dresses (and looks a bit) like Tintin! So now if Rachel ever rolls her eyes at the latest piece of merchandising I've sneaked into the gamesroom I'll just direct her to this video.

I can only dream of being that organised and regimented in my collecting.