Bump! I recently found a book going for 30p in a second hand bookshop called "Breaking Free". It professes to be a Tintin book, but it's a very obvious fake. It was published in the 1980s and is an anarchist work. The author, one "J Daniels", should not give up his day job, as he can't write or draw.
If you really want to read it for yourself, it's here:
tintinrevolution.free.fr/pages/image001.htmlContains bad language, violence and a little bit of wholly unnecessary nudity.
I strongly suspect that Daniels only made it a Tintin pastiche so he could copy Herge's work directly from the comics (because, as I said, he can't draw for toffee) - the characters do not appear to have anything to do with the originals other than a physical resemblance. Among the notable differences:
- Tintin is now Captain Haddock's nephew.
- Captain Haddock's first name in this comic is actually "Captain".
- The Captain is married and works on a building site.
- The Thompsons have turned into a black guy called Frank.
- Snowy is missing, presumed dead.
The back cover blurb includes a quote, supposedly from the Police Federation, which describes the book as, "Absolutely terrible...We have a free press but there is a limit to how far it can go." And if you believe that's a real quote, might I interest you in these magic beans?