Tintin: The Complete Companion
by Michael Farr, Herge
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Author: Herge, Michael FarrEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03
ISBN: 0867199016
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Last Gasp
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Book Review: May spark your interest
Summary: 3 Stars
I read some orginal Tintin books when I was a child, but they were in French, which I could not understand. Nevertheless, we "read" them until the bindings came apart.
This "companion" has some excellent history on Herge and Tintin and the roots of the series, and it unabashedly addresses some of the controversies, including right-wing ideology and racism, as evident in the first two books, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, and Tintin in the Congo.
What is fascinating is that Herge himeself "censored" the stories from the time they were first printed in Black and White in the Belgian Catholic (right-wing) newspaper and when they appeared as color books on their own. He even later tweaked the color books further, when they appeared even too much for the political sensiblites of the 1950's.
The author documents all of these changes on a frame-by-frame basis, and also shows the source photos Herge used for many of his backgrounds and items (cars, ships, buildings, etc.). Perhaps one reason these "comics" were so compelling was that Herge took these details seriously, and knew that even young readers would recognize fanciful details as made-up and thus detracting from the "realism" of the story.
The book also documents and makes a good case for the Tintin books being the precurser of today's "Graphic Novels" (of which I have no personal interst in).
The only major fault I can find in this book is that the author perhaps is too much of an unnecessary apolgist for Herge, particularly with regard to "Land of the Soviets". Today we know that Herge was basically right about the Soviet Union at the time. Commmunism was a fraud, and Stalin killed millions of his own people. Herge has nothing to apologize for with regard to "Land of the Soviets."
If you plan on revisting the Tintin series, this book can be a good place to start. It is a bit too much of a read, as each chapter summarizes the plotline of a different book ad nauseum. But the photos and commentary on the details of the making of each book make it worthwhile.
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