Yves Rodier

Yves Rodier (born June 5, 1967) is a Québécois comic strip creator known for his many pastiches of The Adventures of Tintin.

He started out by imitating the work of his favorite author, Hergé, creating pastiches of The Adventures of Tintin.

These copies were illegal and did not earn him much money, although they allowed him to meet many other cartoonists, such as Bob de Moor, Jacques Martin and Michel "Greg" Regnier.

They are illegal, as they breach the Tintin copyright owned by the Hergé Foundation (Moulinsart), but some have been published, and they are all found circulating on the Internet.

In September 1991, Rodier met Bob de Moor, and together they asked for permission to re-draw the book.

Rodier started out a new book called A Day at the Airport though it was abandoned, with the first page leaking onto the web.

The origin of the story lies in a scenario for a drawing contest in the Journal de Spirou number 1027, from December 19, 1957.

Yves Rodier's version of Le Thermozéro is an inking from page 4 of sketches made from Hergé.

While in his version of Tintin and Alph-Art some panels were simply copied from Hergé's albums (especially from "Coke en Stock"), Rodier, encouraged by Bob de Moor, tried to make his own drawings.

More specifically, I had asked him a few technical precisions, the type of pens that he used, etc..." De Moor was enthusiastic about Rodier's drawings (he called Alph-Art "utopian").