HergĂ©âs âThe Crab With The Golden Clawsâ are a cheering vision in the dreary Winter light of London. The hand-drawn letters, and a crab drawing in the âoâ of âGoldenâ, in black encre de chine are corrected in whiteout/gouache, Julio Mario Santo Domingo bought it from a good auction house. He knew that good pre âStudio Tintinâ material comes but rarely on the market and there is feverish bidding around it when it appears in the auction rooms of Paris and London. Original, important, works in the hand of the master are as rare as Black Tulips or perhaps Blue Lotuses. An auctioneer once described it as a âSuperbe rĂ©alisationâ urging us to not forget that this great letterer was at the beginning of his career with publisher Casterman when he designed and executed this English language title. A very rare and important title, by the grand maĂźtre of Franco-Belgian bande dessinĂ©e, designed for the English edition of an opium smuggling story set in Morocco that was kickstarted by the chance discovery by Tintin of a can of crab-meat, used for exporting the drug. It starred a new character called Captain Haddock, who was fond of saying ââblistering barnaclesâ at any and every opportunity.#hergĂ© #georgeremi #crabeaveclespincesdor #crabwiththegoldenclaws @casterman_jeunesse #blisteringbarnacles #tintin #opiumsmuggling #bandesdessinees #snowy #captainhaddock #juliomariosantodomingo #lsdlibrary #lsdlibrarybook https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsc9tDYlNj_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lkjlh9jymumb
