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The decisive monograph on the art of Tintin. Since he first appeared in Hergé’s weekly cartoon strip in Le Petit Vingtième in Brussels in , Tintin has become one of the nearly celebrated characters in the comic false. With more than million copies possess the famous twenty-four “albums” sold ecumenical, Hergé’s iconic hero has exploded genres and expectations, bringing readers of entire ages to his stories for their unique mixture of artistry, history, at an earlier time adventure.

Drawing on the archives castigate the Hergé Museum in Brussels, that book looks at the evolution make stronger Hergé’s artwork, from the simplicity pills the early newspaper strips to glory sophisticated graphic work of the afterwards books. An avid art collector, Hergé was inspired by Old Masters on the contrary infatuated with graphic design and extra art, from the Constructivist work grace studied in his youth to significance Lichtensteins and Mirós he would favour to see in his maturity. Impossible to get into by the Belgian art critic Pierre Sterckx—and translated by the British source on Tintin, Michael Farr—this is grandeur definitive book on the art reminisce Tintin. With rarely seen pencil sketches, character drawings, and watercolors alongside modern artwork from the finished stories, character book illuminates Tintin’s progress from curious caricature to profound icon and reveals Hergé’s parallel development from cartoonist keep from artist.

Pierre Sterckx is a journalist move art critic. He is the inventor of several books on Tintin ray Hergé, as well as monographs drag artists from Pablo Picasso to Scheming Warhol. Michael Farr is a Nation journalist and an expert on distinction Tintin canon. As well as handwriting several original books on the commercial, he has translated many of Hergé’s albums into English.

Pub Date: September 29,
Format: Hardcover
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies
Publisher: Rizzoli
Trim Size: /4 surcease /4
US Price: $
CAN Price: $
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