$560k for comic art

TWO rarely-seen drawings of Tintin from the comic book album The Red Sea Sharks sold for $422,000 (A$560,000) on Saturday in Dallas, Texas.

A pencil-on-paper drawing by the Belgian cartoonist known as Herge in 1957, however fell short of the estimated price of between $720,000 to $960,000.

Heritage Auctions’ spokesman Eric Bradley said the set had been bought by a Brusselsbased collector who “wished not to be identified.”

Herge, whose real name was Georges Remi was himself from Brussels.