HERGE |
Subtitle:
The Man Who Created Tintin
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Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
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Author:
Assouline, Pierre, tr. By Ruas, Charles
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780195397598
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Price:
USD 24.95
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Publication Year:
2009
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Publisher Info
Kimberly Craven,
Oxford University Press,198 Madison Ave.,
New York ,
New York - 10016-4314,USA
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Book Description
Offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics, this is the first full biography of Herge available for an English-speaking audience.
Born in Brussels in 1907, Herge began his career as a cub reporter, a profession he gave to his teenaged, world-traveling hero. But whereas Tintin was "fully formed, clear-headed, and positive," Assouline notes, his inventor was "complex, contradictory, inscrutable." For all his huge success--achieved with almost no formal training--Herge would say unassumingly of his art, "I was just happy drawing little guys, that's all."
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