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Uncover Tintin’s secrets: From comic strip to cultural icon.

Tintin: Hergé and His Creation

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    336 pages

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    13 December 2011

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Summary

The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Hergé, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Hergé, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin ‘his only rival’.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781848546721
ISBN-10:1848546726
Author:Harry Thompson
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:13 December 2011
Weight:254g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 23mm
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Praise for Tintin: Herg? & His Creation - —

As biographies go, they don’t come much more definitive than Harry Thompson’s hugely enjoyable account of Tintin - James Delingpole, Sunday Telegraph

Harry Thompson rings all the right bells…a joyous Tintinabulation - Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday

A major biography…witty and sympathetic - Jonathan Sale, Financial Times

Thompson…is motivated by such admiration for Herg? and such affection for Tintin that his pleasure is communicated. I am keen to reread Tintin in the light of what I know now - Nicholas Garland, Daily Telegraph

A delightful portrait…well-organised and well researched…witty, fascinating and just a little mad…it is more or less impossible not to like this book - The European

As a broad, bright Herg?-like brush-stroke, it has genuine appeal - Guardian

The first book in English on Tintin to have an idea in it - The Times

About The Author

Harry Thompson

Harry Thompson was the inventor and editor of many TV comedy series including Have I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He is the author of acclaimed bestsellers, including Peter Cook: A Biography. His most recent book is a historical novel, This Thing of Darkness. He worked as a producer at Talkback TV and in his spare time ran an infamous cricket team, the Captain Scott XI. He died in November 2005.

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