There is something about Tintin that defines time, language and culture. How is it that this boyish reporter thought up one fine day at the end of the twentieth century's second decade by an unassuming Belgian should be going strong at the start of new millennium?
This is how George Remi created his work. A highly gifted illustrator with a vivid, child-like imagination and deep curiosity in the world around him. By devising a character who would appeal to children as much as grown-ups, though for often quite diferent reasons, Herge struck gold. He said Tintin was aimed at "all young people aged seven to seventy-seven".
This was the first book. An adventure reporter, Tintin's universal appeal, stretching from his birthplace in Brussels to corners of the world far more obscure than those he reached in his globetrotting adventures, has a rock solid foundation in reality, enabling him to transcend fashion, age and nationality.
The perfectionism of detail of the Tintin stories, the real or fictitious but thoroughly convincing settings, mirrored the world as seen by Herge and his public. A new word could be added to the dictionay: Tintinesque, a person or situation typical of the adventures. The eternally youthful Tintin, distinctive only on account of his quiff and, in twenty-two adventures, his plus four trousers, derives an unexpected reality from his surroundings.
Indeed, this is the first book, to explore the sources in real life of all the TinTin Adventures and it will delight Tintinologists everywhere.
Thank you Michael Farr for the amazing sneek-peek into Tintins life and how illustrated comics are made.
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