Tintin in the Congo

Tintin in the Congo

Author: Hergé

Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781405220989

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Join the world’s most famous travelling reporter in two exciting adventures as he heads for the Congo. The young reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy set off on assignment to Africa. But a sinister stowaway follows their every move and seems set on ensuring they come to a sticky end. Tintin and Snowy encounter witch doctors, hostile tribesmen, crocodiles, boa constrictors and numerous other wild animals before solving the mystery and getting their story. Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011. The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.


Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Author: Hergé

Publisher: Mammoth

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781405208222

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The world’s most famous travelling reporter searches for the truth behind the theft of some priceless works of art. But what does the King Shark have to do with it all? Tintin and his friends are holidaying in Syldavia with Professor Calculus, who has invented an amazing new duplicating machine. But a series of strange occurrences makes Tintin suspicious. Who is the mysterious “King Shark”, and what does he want with Calculus’ machine? Is there a connection with the recent theft of famous works of art from the world’s leading museums? Tintin is determined to find out! Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011. The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.


Tintin

Tintin

Author: Michael Farr

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Explores the sources in real life of all the Tintin adventures.


Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin

Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin

Author: Pierre Assouline

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0195397592

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One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Translated into dozens of languages, Tintin's adventures have sold millions of copies, and Steven Spielberg is presently adapting the stories for the big screen. Yet, despite Tintin's enduring popularity, Americans know almost nothing about his gifted creator, Georges Remi--better known as Hergé. Offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics, this is the first full biography of Hergé available for an English-speaking audience. Born in Brussels in 1907, Hergé began his career as a cub reporter, a profession he gave to his teenaged, world-traveling hero. But whereas Tintin was "fully formed, clear-headed, and positive," Assouline notes, his inventor was "complex, contradictory, inscrutable." For all his huge success--achieved with almost no formal training--Hergé would say unassumingly of his art, "I was just happy drawing little guys, that's all." Granted unprecedented access to thousands of the cartoonist's unpublished letters, Assouline gets behind the genial public mask to take full measure of Hergé's life and art and the fascinating ways in which the two intertwine. Neither sugarcoating nor sensationalizing his subject, he meticulously probes such controversial issues as Hergé'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 Hergé's appreciation for the Boy Scouts organization as well as his Catholic mentor's anti-Soviet ideology--and relates the comic strip to Hergé's own place within the Belgian middle class. A profound influence on a generation of artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the elusive figure of Hergé comes to life in this illuminating biography--a deeply nuanced account that unveils the man and his career as never before.


Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith

Author: Frank H. Spearman

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0865346968

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Disaster stalked the rails from the day the division superintendent of a pioneer Western railroad fired the wrecking boss, Murray Sinclair. The railroad calls in Whispering Smith to resolve the situation.


Tintin and Alph-Art

Tintin and Alph-Art

Author: Hergé

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780316003759

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The classic graphic novel. The unfinished final adventure of Tintin featuring Herge's black-and-white sketches. Opera singer Bianca Castafiore has a guru: Endaddine Akass is handing his advice out to everyone, but Tintin doesn't buy it-especially when he realizes that Akass might be connected to the death of the owner of an art gallery, who had been on his way to see Tintin when he died.


Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Author: Hergé

Publisher: Adventures of Tintin

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781405266512

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Accompanied by his dog Snowy, Tintin leaves Brussels to go undercover in Soviet Russia. His attempts to research his story are put to the test by the Bolsheviks and Moscow's secret police...


The Colonial Heritage of French Comics

The Colonial Heritage of French Comics

Author: Mark McKinney

Publisher: Contemporary French and Franco

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846316425

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Although France has changed much in recent decades, colonial-era imagery continues to circulate widely in comics, in part because the colonial archives are easily accessible, and through the republication of colonial-era comics that are viewed as classics. The latter include the Tintin series of comic books, by the Belgian artist Herg , and the "Zig and Puce" series by Alain Saint-Ogan, a Frenchman. In this important new study Mark McKinney situates comics in debates about French colonialism, arguing that cartoonists still use representations of colonial history in their comics as a way of intervening in debates about contemporary France and its current relationships to its former colonies. McKinney argues that comics offer unique opportunities to both reproduce and thereby perpetuate colonial ideologies, images and discourses, as well as to deconstruct and contest them. The ways, and the degree to which, they do one or the other tell us a great deal about the heritage of imperialism and colonialism


Tintin & Co

Tintin & Co

Author: Michael Farr

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780867196900

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A guide to the characters of the comic series presents information on the role in the strip of and real life models for Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, General Alcazar, and Professor Calculus.


Tintin in America

Tintin in America

Author: Hergé

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781484469040

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The boy reporter comes to the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the Wild West.