The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the "Daily Herald"; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Since "The Sun on Sunday" was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation. "The Sun" previously had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the
Prisoners of the Sun a collaboration between the French studio Ellipse and the Canadian animation company Nelvana. "Prisoners of the Sun" was the twelfth story to be adapted and was divided into two thirty-minute episodes. Directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, the series has been praised for being "generally faithful" to the original comics, to the extent that the animation was directly adopted from Hergé's original panels. In 1997, the French company Infogrames released a video game based on "The Seven Crystal Balls"-"Prisoners of the Sun" story arc, titled "Prisoners of the Sun". In 2001, "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun" were adapted