Along with 24 volumes of comic adventures, there are numerous non-fiction books focused on Tintin and his creator, cartoonist Herge. Here are some of the best:
Tintin:
the Complete Companion
A fully illustrated guide to the world-famous comic character Tintin,
and his adventures. This well-researched and gorgeously presented
overview follows Tintin through the 23 titles of the complete series.
Tintin is the classic example of groundbreaking graphic narrative that
all others can be compared to. Written and drawn between 1929 and 1976,
the 23 adventures of Tintin, his dog Snowy and an unforgettable cast of
characters has become a defining standard of graphic literature.
The Complete Companion contextualizes the work of Tintin's creator,
Hergé, and places it in its historical context. Author Michael Farr
shows Hergé's drawings side by side with their references, demonstrating
how he established believable backgrounds and realistic details.
The Companion includes a large number of sketches, which Hergé would
re-work and polish until he found the clearest, most easily readable
line-giving birth to a style that would later be called Clear Line.
The Adventures of Tintin mix universal appeal, adventure and slapstick,
drama and humor in a collection of stories that have stood the test of
time and whose art style has been adopted by new generations of European
cartoonists. This is the ultimate companion to the Adventures of
Tintin.
The Adventures of Herge: Creator of Tintin
Following on from his best selling Tintin: The Complete Companion,
Michael Farr portrays the little known but fascinating life of Herge,
the remarkable artist behind Tintin, the boy reporter who continues to
thrill and delight an ever-widening audience. In seven separate sketches
he presents his picture of a man whose life is the key to his creation.
Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin
Timed to coincide with Steven Spielberg's long-awaited film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,
here is the first full biography of Herge 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thousands of the cartoonist's unpublished letters, Assouline gets behind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 Herge'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 Herge'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 Herges love for the Boy Scouts as well
as his Catholic mentor's anti-Soviet ideology--and relates the comic
strip to Herge's own place within the Belgian middle class.
The Art of Herge, Inventor of Tintin: Volume 1: 1907-1937
The first in a three-volume series, The Art of Herge presents a
selection of Herge's outstanding, often unpublished drawings showing the
diversity of his work and offering the reader a view of the range of
his talent. Georges Remi, better known as Herge, the creator of
Tintin & Snowy, was born a century ago. He left us an exceptional
legacy.
The Art of Herge, Inventor of Tintin: Volume 2: 1937-1949
The second in a three-volume series, this is a selection of Herge's
outstanding, often unpublished, drawings showing the diversity of his
work and offering the reader a view of the range of his talent. The period
illustrated in this volume is fascinating on a number of counts. It
marks the maturity of Hergé, the creator and artist. In 1937 Hergé was
only 30, but he had already laid down enough markers to lay claim to his
future territory - the strip cartoon. It was during this period that he
began to render the Adventures of Tintin in color. The period covered
in this volume was also marked by the national and international
political tensions, and mounting dangers, that boiled over into the
Second World War. From his childhood onwards, Herge produced a vast
number of drawings, and these are all presented in chronological order,
with many high quality reproductions, all accompanied by concise
commentary, allowing us a closer look into the artist's daily routine,
and by extension, his thoughts.
The Art of Herge, Inventor of Tintin: Volume 3: 1950-1983
This third volume of The Art of Herge covers the years
1950 to 1983, The prolific output of the master of the "clear line"
included advertisements, comic strips, illustrations, fashion designs
and caricatures. In this series, Herge's work is presented in
chronological order, with many high-quality reproductions of the art.
The artwork is accompanied by concise commentary, allowing us a closer
look into the artist's daily routine and output.
Tintin and the World of Herge: An Illustrated History
Examines the early life and career of artist Hergé, discussing the
development of Tintin, influences on Hergé's work, and the
international popularity of the Tintin series.
Tintin and the Secret of Literature
Arguing that the Tintin books' characters are as strong and their plots
as complex as any dreamed up by the great novelists, Tom McCarthy asks a
simple question: Is Tintin literature? Taking a cue from Tintin himself
— who spends much of his time tracking down illicit radio signals,
entering crypts, and decoding puzzles — McCarthy suggests that we too
need to “tune in” and decode if we want to capture what's going on in
Hergé's extraordinarily popular work. What emerges from McCarthy's
examination of Tintin is a remarkable story of illegitimacy and deceit,
in both Hergé's work and his own family history. McCarthy's irresistibly
clever, tightly constructed book shows how the themes Tintin generates —
expulsion from home, violation of the sacred, the host-guest
relationship turned sour, and anxieties around questions of forgery and
fakes — are the same that have fueled and troubled writers from the
classical era to the present day.
Hergé, Son of Tintin
Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Hergé
and the last person to interview Remi, Benoît Peeters tells the
complete story behind Hergé's origins and shows how and why the nom de
plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin's popularity
exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary
sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who
sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Hergé's identity
to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Hergé lived out a romanticized
version of life for Remi.
The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults
Published in French in 1984 and republished many times since, this
pioneering work examines the long career of both the cartoonist and his
creation. Hergé's right-wing upbringing, all too apparent in his first
two albums, brought accusations of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and racism,
but in the endless revisions he undertook over the course of his career,
he proved skillful at evading his critics. After the Second World War,
Tintin's adventures became more psychological than political, thus
appealing to a wider range of readers. He left behind the real world and
came to occupy the center of a fictional universe where he tirelessly
championed the underdog. A figure without origins, he turned
international hero at the very moment that Western nations were becoming
homogenized and transmitting their commodities and values on a global
scale. Arguing that the series of albums thus offers a reflection on the
whole of twentieth-century life, Jean-Marie Apostolidès traces the
evolution of Tintin's character and reveals the unity of Hergé's
masterpiece.
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