Herge
The Man Who Created Tintin
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 October 2011
- ISBN 9780199837274
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Here is the first full biography of Hergé available for an English-speaking audience, offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics.
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One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Translated into dozens of languages, Tintin's adventures have sold millions of copies. Yet, despite Tintin's enduring popularity, Americans know almost nothing about his gifted creator, Georges Remi--better known as Hergé.
Timed to coincide with Steven Spielberg's long-awaited film The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn, here is the first full biography of Hergé available for an English-speaking audience, offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics. Granted unprecedented access to thousands of the cartoonist's unpublished letters, Assouline gets behind the genial public mask to take full measure of Hergé's life and art and the fascinating ways in which the two intertwine. Neither sugarcoating nor sensationalizing his subject, he weighs such controversial issues as Hergé's support for Belgian imperialism in the Congo and his alleged collaboration with the Nazis. He also analyzes the underpinnings of Tintin--how the conception of the character as an asexual adventurer reflected Hergé's love for the Boy Scouts as well as his Catholic mentor's anti-Soviet ideology--and relates the comic strip to Hergé's own place within the Belgian middle class.
For all his huge success--achieved with almost no formal training--Hergé would say unassumingly of his art, "I was just happy drawing little guys, that's all." A profound influence on a generation of artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the elusive figure of Hergé comes to life in this illuminating biography--a deeply nuanced account that unveils the man and his career as never before.
"Highlights yet again that all-too-common divide between the flawed private man and the admirable creative genius.... Those fascinated by the strange lives of creative geniuses may want to read Assouline's fine, if somewhat disillusioning, biography."
--Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"Will inform and edify America's Tintin devotees."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Herge emerges as a comic genius
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part I: Truths
1. A Life in Gray: 1907-1925
2. Scoutmaster in the Twentieth Century: 1925-1929
3. The Many Births of Tintin: 1929-1934
4. What Chang Taught Herge: 1934-1936
5. Eye of the Storn: 1936-1940
6. The Golden Age: 1940-1944
Part II: Solitude
7. The Plight of the Inciviques: 1944-1946
8. The Dark Years: 1946-1950
Part III: Recognition
9. Toward Fulfillment: 1950-1958
10. The Demon of Purity: 1958-1960
11. Finishing Touches: 1960-1973
12. The End of a Life, the Culmination of his Work: 1973-1983
abbreviations used in notes
Notes
Select Bibliograohy
List of works by Herge
Acknowledgments
Index
