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From: Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism (online Journal)[(essay date September 1998) In the following essay, Macdonald examines how Hergé worked to unify both words and images into a cohesive whole in "Tintin," while additionally noting the "tension of philosophical...
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From: Tintin: The Complete Collection[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Farr offers a critical overview of Hergé's final, unfinished "Tintin" story, Tintin and Alph-Art, calling the volume "a fascinating and fitting testament that provides a...
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From: New Statesman[(essay date 26 January 2004) In the following essay, Cook maintains that Hergé's reputation has been unfairly tarnished by critics questioning his political affiliations and argues that a cursory examination of the...
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From: Modern and Contemporary France[(essay date August 1999) In the following essay, Frey discusses the growing controversy surrounding alleged claims that Hergé's "Tintin" series displays strong right-wing sympathies and offensive racial caricatures.]...
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From: Rethinking History[(essay date August 2002) In the following essay, Peeters re-examines the recurring question of Hergé's political sentiments during World War II, a period which has repeatedly tainted critical appraisals of both the...
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From: Modern and Contemporary France[(essay date May 2004) In the following essay, Frey notes the strong paternalistic elements evident in two of Hergé's "Tintin" collections--Les 7 Boules de cristal and Le Temple du soleil--through his analysis of the...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 114. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:"Tintin" Series*Tintin au pays des Soviets (comic book) 1930; published as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, 1989Tintin au Congo (comic book) 1931; published as Tintin in the Congo, 1991Tintin en...
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From: Horn Book Magazine[(essay date April 1984) In the following essay, Scott offers a posthumous tribute to Hergé (Georges Rémi) on the occasion of the author's death, recounting Hergé's personal life and the publishing history of his...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1985) In the following essay--translated and introduced by Margaret R. Higonnet--Apostolides examines the structure of the familial relationships between the lead characters in Hergé's "Tintin" series.]...
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From: Sites: The Journal of 20th-Century Contemporary France[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Baetens asserts that, despite the numerous translations of Hergé's comic strips that have been released worldwide, the "Tintin" series remains wholly untranslatable due to...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThis new facsimile reprint of the very first adventure of one of the world's most beloved cartoon characters [Tintin in the Land of the Soviets] shows Tintin's creator, the famed Belgian cartoonist Hergé, just beginning...
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From:Journeys (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGeorges Remi (better known as Herge, a pseudonym made up of his two initials: R G) died in 1983, having made a name as the father of the modern cartoon strip in Western Europe, notably thanks to 23 books narrating the...
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From:The New Yorker (Vol. 83, Issue 14)A hundred years ago, on May 22, 1907, a child named Georges Remi came into being. He was born in the Etterbeek district of Brussels, which is about as quiet a start in life as any person can have. Four years earlier and...
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From:European Comic Art (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
Spirou's Origin Myth and Family Romances: The Domestication of Adventure in the New Adventure Comic.
This article focuses on the narratives of Spirou's origins and backstory from Rob-Vel to Feroumont and Bravo, examining his progressive departure from the Tintinesque adventure paradigm. The Freudian notion of family... -
From:European Comic Art (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed'Scenariographics' is defined as the deployment of the (non-specific) codes of the medium by individual comics artists in order to achieve effects that are specific to their work and therefore difficult to transpose to...
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From:European Comic Art (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis reading of Herge's Tintin au Tibet uses the notions of 'the daydream' and 'the haunting idea' in order to approach the text not at the level of its plot, but at that of the imaginary that underlies it, whose...
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From:Biography (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley, editors University Press of Mississippi, 2018, 298 pp. ISBN 9781496821096, $30 paperback. At the first...