Tintin: The Complete Companion

Farr, Michael

ISBN 10: 0719555221 / ISBN 13: 9780719555220

Published by John Murray, 2002

About this Item

As new hardback,no inscriptions,in v/g un-clipped d/j with a slight tear to front bottem corner.2002,edition.

Seller Inventory # 33333

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tintin: The Complete Companion
• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719555221
• ISBN 13: 9780719555220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1054 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens
  • history

About this title

Synopsis

This text explains the sources in reality of all the Tintin stories, which still sell four million copies a year worldwide. Politics, people, events and objects are all covered,;Tintin, the extraordinary reporter with his immediately recognizable coif and his dog Snowy, has been a publishing phenomenon since he first appeared in 1928. Herge, Tintin's creator, based the stories on actual events in his world, reflecting the political tensions of the 1930s and postwar events. The Anschluss and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the race to the moon, our Western fascination with the Abominable Snowman, the spying activities of Buster Crabbe, the revolutionary activities of Regis Bebray in South America, are just a few of the people, events and phenomena to crop up, inimitably satirized, in Herge's stories. He also drew on real objects: the aircraft, ships, guns, cars, clothes, buildings and so forth, that appear in his stories are scrupulously correct, and were often updated in subsequent editions.;This book explains the sources, of whatever kind, of all the stories. It also shows how Herge subtly adjusted the stories in new editions, adapting them to changing times and ideas, and downplaying their originally local, Belgian origins.

About the Author

Michael Farr has written, edited and translated numerous books on Tintin. He was, for years, a reporter like Tintin, and in the same countries - or at least their real counterparts. He knew Hergé and is the leading British Tintinologist. His bestselling TINTIN: THE COMPLETE COMPANION was published in 2001. He was a consultant on the Stephen Spielberg film.