Pintor Iranzo, IvanWiele, Eva Van de2023-05-022023-05-022021Pintor Iranzo I, van de Wiele E. Out of family, into history: a comparative study of the superchild in Corriere dei Piccoli, TBO and The Adventures of Tintin. Studies in Comics. 2021;12(1):11-32. DOI: 10.1386/stic_00047_12040-3232http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56638Through the sagacious insights of Jean-Marie Apostolidès about Hergé’s well-known character Tintin, this article gathers a comparative investigation on the relationship between the child and the absence of family. More specifically, we address the figure defined by Apostolidès as ‘superchild’ through a comparison between the publications Corriere dei Piccoli(CdP), in Italy, TBO, in Spain and, in the Belgian case, of the figure that motivated the term used by Apostolidès, Tintin. The article forms a comparative comics exercise from a hermeneutical-historical, narratological methodology linked to the figural study of images (Brenez 1998; Bellour 2013), in order to underline some of the singularities of the bond between the superchild and the absent family.application/pdfeng© Pintor Iranzo & Wiele, 2021. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Studies in Comics, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 11 - 32, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00047_1info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stic_00047_1absent familyarchetype studyHergéJean-Marie Apostolidèsnarrative in comicspowertinkeringinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess