I have been a passionate fan of the Tintin books ever since I was a kid. There are a few moments when notebooks make an appearance, including these:
All the images above are from King Ottokar’s Sceptre.
And there’s my favorite, which is from The Red Sea Sharks:
Maybe this is where my love of squared notebooks came from!
I am also a fan of TinTin. In fact I made a TinTin notebook (Destination Moon) 2 weeks ago.
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There are some beautiful commercially available Tintin notebooks as well. I’ve purchased several from the London based Tintin store and others from Tintin stores in Tokyo. They are all regular spiral notebooks, oddly enough none are reporter style.
This is a fabulous website, by the way.