"Puffed up and provocative," Michelin man is Madrid art attraction (AFP)

MADRID (AFP) - "Puffed up and provocative," the Michelin Man, face of the company's tyres for more than a century, is packing as much paunch as punch at Madrid's Conde Duque museum through to January 14. The exhibition shows some of the iconic pictures of the rubber-faced character, which has been the Michelin company's mascot since 1898 and has become a globally-recognised facet of its advertising ever since. The cuddly creature with no shortage of spare tyre was created by Andre and Edouard Michelin ...