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Tintin: Hergé and His Creation

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13th October 2011

Price: £10.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781848546721

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The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Hergé, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Hergé, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin ‘his only rival’.

Reviews

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Praise for Tintin: Hergé & His Creation
James Delingpole, Sunday Telegraph
'As biographies go, they don't come much more definitive than Harry Thompson's hugely enjoyable account of Tintin'
Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday
'Harry Thompson rings all the right bells...a joyous Tintinabulation'
Jonathan Sale, Financial Times
'A major biography...witty and sympathetic'
Nicholas Garland, Daily Telegraph
'Thompson...is motivated by such admiration for Hergé and such affection for Tintin that his pleasure is communicated. I am keen to reread Tintin in the light of what I know now'
The European
'A delightful portrait...well-organised and well researched...witty, fascinating and just a little mad...it is more or less impossible not to like this book'
Guardian
'As a broad, bright Hergé-like brush-stroke, it has genuine appeal'
The Times
'The first book in English on Tintin to have an idea in it'
Frank Muir, Sunday Express
'An admirably organised double biography... For specialists and for the myriad devotees of the stories this book is a must'
GQ
'Immensely detailed...it contains a great deal of fascinating information'