The Blue Professor

by HELGE Art Gallery

Title

The Blue Professor

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HELGE Art Gallery

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Painting - Watercolor

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Professor Cuthbert Calculus (French: Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, meaning "Professor Tryphon Sunflower"), is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Herge. He is Tintin's friend, an absent-minded professor and half-deaf physicist, who invents many sophisticated devices used in the series, such as a one-person shark-shaped submarine, the Moon rocket, and an ultrasound weapon. Calculus's deafness is a frequent source of humour, as he repeats back what he thinks he has heard, usually in the most unlikely words possible. He does not admit to being near-deaf and insists he is only a little hard of hearing in one ear.
Calculus first appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure, and was the result of Herge's long quest to find the archetypal mad scientist or absent-minded professor. Although Herge had included characters with similar traits in earlier stories, Calculus developed into a much more complex figure as the series progressed.

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April 21st, 2015

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