Les Cigares du Pharaon is a vibrant collision of comic-book mythology, music culture, and contemporary street art. Measuring 1m x 1.2m and created on a museum-grade wooden panel, this mixed media work reimagines the world of The Adventures of Tintin through layers of expressive paint, graffiti-inspired mark-making, handwritten text, and raw urban texture.
 
Featuring Tintin and Milou moving through a dreamlike landscape of colour and memory, the painting pays homage to the timeless visual storytelling of Hergé while pulling it into a louder, more chaotic contemporary world. Across the surface are fragments of lyrics from Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles — handwritten lines that weave humour, rhythm, nostalgia, and pop culture directly into the composition.
 
The contrast between Hergé’s clean iconic imagery and the rough immediacy of street art creates a work that feels both playful and rebellious. Familiar childhood characters become part of a wider visual language built from music, memory, graffiti, posters, and urban decay. The result is a painting that exists somewhere between pop art object and emotional time capsule.
 
The museum-grade wooden panel gives the work physical weight and permanence, while the layered mixed-media surface preserves the spontaneity and energy of something discovered on the walls of a city street.
 
Part celebration, part reinvention, Les Cigares du Pharaon explores the strange relationship between childhood innocence and adult nostalgia — where comics, music, and memory become inseparable.