Pompidou Center Pays Homage to Hergé

(photo: Le Figaro/ A. Aubert)

The adventures of Tintin and Snowy turned comic books into an art form. Now their creator Hergé is being honored by a mega-exhibition in Paris. On show are drawings, illustrations and recordings -- and documents of political controversies.

See a slide show here.

via http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,455736,00.html and bookshelves_of_doom.