24 Books Tintin Comics Collection

 

Herge "All Tintin Books written by Herge - 24 Books"
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The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge;, the pen name of Georges Prosper Remi (1907–1983). The series first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on January 10, 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, the series has continued as a favourite of readers and critics alike for over 70 years.

The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter.
He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French).
Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other colourful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont).

The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for both film and theatre.
The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.

The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire style.
Engaging, well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction.
The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humour, offset in later albums by sophisticated satire and political/cultural commentary.

The Complete Series :

1. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Black & White Book)
2. Tintin in the Congo (Black & White Book)
3. Tintin in America
4. Cigars of the Pharaoh
5. The Blue Lotus
6. The Broken Ear
7. The Black Island
8. King Ottokar's Sceptre
9. The Crab with the Golden Claws
10. The Shooting Star
11. The Secret of the Unicorn
12. Red Rackham's Treasure
13. The Seven Crystal Balls
14. Prisoners of the Sun
15. Land of Black Gold
16. Destination Moon
17. Explorers on the Moon
18. The Calculus Affair
19. The Red Sea Sharks
20. Tintin in Tibet
21. The Castafiore Emerald
22. Flight 714
23. Tintin and the Picaros
24. Tintin and Alph-Art (finished by other)


The Author :

Georges Prosper Remi (1907-1983), under his alias Herge; (his initials reversed and pronounced in French) created 23 volumes of the adventures of Tintin, one of the most recognizable figures in fiction.
The first Tintin strip appeared in 1929 in Le Petit Vingtieme, the weekly supplement of the Belgium newspaper, Le Vingtieme Siecle and was immediately popular.
Herge; developed a clarity of drawing, composition and narrative, known as the 'Clear Line', an approach subsequently followed by numerous cartoonists.

After the Second World War, Herge was wrongly accused of collaborating with the Nazis.
Herge utilized his time by redrawing the previous Tintin adventures to conform to a standard 62 page colour album format.
Another change was to removing any references to actual historical events or people and real places - thus giving the Tintin stories a timeless quality.

Herge died on March 3, 1983, aged 75, due to complications arising from anemia, which he had suffered from for several years.

He left the twenty-four Tintin adventure books, the last one : Tintin and Alph-Art, unfinished.
Following his expressed desire not to have Tintin handled by another artist, it was published posthumously as a set of sketches and notes in 1986.
In 1987, Fanny (Herge's second wife) closed the Herge Studios, replacing it with the Herge Foundation. In 1988, Tintin magazine was discontinued.

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