First serialised in Tintin magazine from 23 December 1954 to 22 February 1956, the original version of The Calculus Affair is now published in album form for the very first time, in an exceptional edition. Page after page, this tense spy story, played out on a knife-edge along the border between Syldavia and Borduria, lets Hergé show off the full mastery of his storytelling and his drawing.
As he set out on The Calculus Affair, Hergé reorganised the way he worked. In offices away from his home, the creator of Tintin had just set up the Hergé Studios, a small team able to help him with the backgrounds and the colouring. Shaped by the Cold War and the brain drain, this new adventure brilliantly borrows the mechanics of the spy thriller, without forgetting the slapstick twists that have been a hallmark of The Adventures of Tintin from the very start.
