Tintin and Asterix on Stamps

Two of the popular comic characters that get a lot of love from readers all around the world are Tintin and Asterix.

The Adventures of Tintin is a series created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series first appeared in French on 10 January 1929, in Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth), a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century). The success of the series led to serialised strips published in Belgium’s leading newspaper Le Soir (The Evening) and spun into a successful Tintin magazine. In 1950, Hergé created Studios Hergé, which produced the canonical versions of 11 Tintin albums. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. Tintin comics have been published in over 70 languages and had also been adapted for radio, television, theatre and film.

Asterix is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars. The series first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comic magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. It was written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo until Goscinny’s death in 1977. Uderzo then took over the writing until 2009, when he sold the rights to publishing company Hachette; he died in 2020. In 2013, a new team consisting of Jean-Yves Ferri (script) and Didier Conrad (artwork) took over. As of 2021, 39 volumes have been released, with the most recent released in October 2021.

Given the immense popularity of Tintin and Asterix, stamps and covers of this theme are very popular with philatelists. Only a few countries have issued stamps on Tintin and Asterix and all items are not readily available.

BidCurios brings for you a range of Tintin and Asterix philately collectibles from France and Belgium. Chose from collection of stamps, miniature souvenir sheets, First Day Covers, Special Covers and other philatelic collectibles.