Tintin cover makes £500,000
A world record price for a comic-strip illustration was paid at a specalist sale at Artcurial in Paris on March 29: Georges Remi Hergé’s 1932 ink-and-gouache design for the cover of Tintin en Amérique.
In excellent condition, this is one of only five gouache designs by Hergé for Tintin book covers and…