Herge The Man Who Created Tintin |
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| Author:
| Assouline, Pierre
Ruas, Charles |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-983727-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.99 |
Book Description:
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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. Granted unprecedented access to thousands of the cartoonist's unpublished letters, Assouline gets behind the genial public mask to take full measure of Hergé's life and art and thefascinating ways in which the two...
More DescriptionOne 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. Granted unprecedented access to thousands of the cartoonist's unpublished letters, Assouline gets behind the genial public mask to take full measure of Hergé's life and art and thefascinating ways in which the two intertwine.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 collaborationwith the Nazis.