Design a Tintin Cover: parody, imitation, farce, staire, fake, mockery, pirate, mimic, humorous, joke, spoof, fantasy, lampoon.

Design a Tintin Cover! An Hommage to Hergé, but a Parody,
Imitation, Farce, Staire, Fake, Mockery, or Spoof
that involves another comic character ~ Page 5

by Dave Ahl (aka SwapMeetDave)
More than 1,000 Tintin real, pastiche, imitation and parody covers are on these pages. Do you have one here? Why not? You can if you can design an imitation cover that's a parody, farce, staire, fantasy, spoof, fake, lampoon, mockery, mimic, counterfeit, forgery, joke, or humorous takeoff of a real cover.
This is Page 5 of these hommages to Hergé with my suggested "rules" for designing a Tintin imitation cover. You can follow them or not; it's your design. Here are the rules:

• 1. Use "correct" proportions. Tintin hardback books measure 8.9" x 11.85" and softbound books measure 8.5" x 11.6" so the proportions are roughly 3:4. Thus if your width is 600 pixels, your height should be 800 px, or if your width is 15 cm, your height should be 20 cm.
• 2. Use whatever program you want (Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro, Paint, etc.) to create your cover, but submit it in jpeg (.jpg) format.
• 3. The main title should use the "Tintin" typeface or something close to it unless you're imitating a cover with a distinctive type font of its own like King Ottokar's Sceptre or Le Secret la Licorne. Images (.jpg and .gif) of the Tintin type font can be downloaded below.
• 4. The cover should involve another comic character. My personal preference is that it be the Smurfs, Hello Kitty, or Wonder Wart-Hog. I've included a bunch of images of all of them below; you can click on any one to see a larger image, which can be downloaded if you wish. Other characters I can see teaming up with Tintin are Quick & Flupke, Mr. Natural, or Supergirl.
• 5. NO X-rated submissions please. No Nazi, racist or religious mockeries either. Your cover doesn't have to be "politically correct," but it does have to meet a reasonable standard of decency.
• 6. Prizes! Oops, there aren't any. However, you will achieve some minor fame from your image appearing on this page.
• 7. Submit your cover design as an e-mail attachment to me at SwapMeetDave@aol.com.

Tintin: Actual Books, Pastiche, Parody
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