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HERGE
HERGE
Subtitle:
The Man Who Created Tintin
Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
Author:
Assouline, Pierre, tr. By Ruas, Charles
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780195397598
Price:
USD 24.95
Publication Year:
2009

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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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