Hergé
Les aventures de Tintin: Le crabe aux pinces d’or
Casterman, 1943 (colour edition)
(Originally published in black and white, strip format, in Le Soir, between 1940 and 1941)
The Karaboudjan was an interesting one. The perceived wisdom for many years has been that Hergé based it on a ship called the Glengarry. In fact, we discovered it was based on one of Glengarry’s three sister ships called the Glenshield. The hulls are the same on all four ships but the silhouette and topsides are slightly different.
Chris Guise, The Art of The Adventures of Tintin (Weta Workshop, 2011)*
* Quote added after the original publication of this post.