Another funky dream sequence. This one's from Tintin #4, Cigars of the Pharaoh.
It's well known that author Hergé got burned out doing Tintin, evidently on more than one occasion. Some of the likely contributing factors: 1) the adventures often took years of research and preparation, 2) they had to be meticulously drawn, particularly as Tintin picked up in popularity, and 3) for most of his career, a finished page or two needed to be produced on a weekly basis in order to go in to such publications as Le Petit Vingtième, Le Soir, and Le journal de Tintin. Hergé was even accused of being a Nazi collaborator after the war, a terribly stressful time for him that thankfully got sorted out in the end.
Which brings me to why I like these rare dream sequences, in which one supposes that Hergé was able to cut loose more freely and indulge more of his creative sensibilities.
