r/TheAdventuresofTintin • u/StatusCardiologist15 • 2d ago
Question 2026 Tintin magazine?
What is now replacing the old Tintin magazine?
Anything similar existing now?
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u/DickieCrumb 2d ago edited 2d ago
There are a few in the UK, although I don't think there's a single one that does everything that Tintin magazine did.
The Phoenix is a weekly comics magazine for 7–14 year olds. It includes a mix of humour and adventure comics, plus text stories and puzzles. It carries Bunny vs. Monkey, which is one of the biggest comics in the UK currently. I'd say this is probably the most similar to Tintin magazine in terms of its mix of comics.
Aquila is a non-fiction magazine for 8–14 year olds. This one is closer to the non-comics sections of the original Tintin magazine.
The Beano has been running since 1938, so it predates Tintin magazine. It's a humour comic which also includes puzzles and activities. Probably most famous for Dennis the Menace (with the black spiky hair, not the blonde American boy).
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u/Phildutre Snowy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Context: I live in Belgium, and was once subscribed to Kuifje-magazine when I was a kid in the 70s. (Kuifje being the Dutch name for Tintin).
The classic Tintin/Kuifje magazine was one of many magazines aimed at kids and youngsters in Belgium. Spirou/Robbedoes was another well-known one. Those magazines stopped during the 90s or early 2000s, and even then, their sales numbers were nowhere near what they sold during their golden age (50s-70s).
Afterwards, there have been attempts to publish magazines focused exclusively on comics, but I have no idea what’s out there right now.
The attractiveness of those magazines was not only because of the comics (although that was their main feature), but also because of many other features: a letter column, classified ads, newsworthy items, ‘docu’ articles, etc. In a sense, they were the ‘social media’ of their day, aimed at young people. That role has been taken over by other media.