Over the years, Andrew Cusack, that most wonderful of web correspondents, has written a number of articles on comic artists of the ligne claire style most famously used by Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin (example, pictured right). As a Tintinophile, the style is a particular favourite of mine. Indeed, above the comics of Footrot Flats and XKCD, The Adventures of Tintin is easily my favourite example of this medium.
The idea of producing a comic book version to freshen up the story that has been so stodgily written in New England Online has some appeal to me. I have long written about my own shortcomings as a writer, particularly of any sort of work involving narrative or verse. The one idea I have had for a novel, that being the story of a jaded Australian journalist travelling to New England and having an adventure, has not progressed very far. So, the idea of instead writing a comic of this story, which I feel would come more easily to me, has some appeal. Even the story line itself has obvious Tintin-esque characteristics to it, so producing it in the same medium seems to be an appropriate way of telling the tale of New England outside the tired parameters of an encyclopaedia.
At this stage, I am promising nothing. But I instead to create a storyboard and brainstorm out an adventure in comic form. If it works, I shall try and commission an artist to draw it, and you’ll see it in good time. If it doesn’t work, I will never speak of it again 
