Tintin and Alph-Art (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
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Book Reviews of Tintin and Alph-Art (The Adventures of Tintin)
Book Review: The art is smaller than the French edition
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a version of Herge's last, unfinished Tintin, translated to English. It is in my opinion the best Tintin adventure around. Unfortunately, only line drawings are available which are not very clear on some pages. The French version has two volumes, one containing a replica of the drawings and the other a script. The English version condenses them into one volume, meaning the space devoted to the drawings is unfortunately smaller.Book Review: My son's favorite TinTin book!
Summary: 5 Stars
My son has all of the tintin books but says this is his favorite. He's 10 and I figure that does say something!Book Review: Elmyr de Hory's Treasure
Summary: 3 Stars
I got into this book when I discovered, thanks to the Glasgow based art critic Francis McKee, that it encompassed Herge's own reflections on the Clifford Irving scandals of the early 1970s: Irving's book on the notorious forger Elmyr de Hory (FAKE!) and his own attempted "Autobiography" of the eccentric and reclusive millionaire Howard Hughes. Then came Orson Welles' film "F for FAKE," which ties in these hoaxes with earlier attempts at fooling a mass public, including his own radio broadcast of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. It is plain that Herge followed this case avidly, and the character of Ramo Nash, the great forger of the book. Instead of Ibiza, the island where de Hory moved in the early 1960s, Herge places Ramo Nash in Ischia. `Oh! A Modigliani (he accidentally touches the canvas; a little paint comes off on his fingers) It's still wet!...And here's a Léger...... a Renoir .... a Picasso ...a Gauguin--a Monet... All fakes! A veritable factory for forging pictures, and perfect imitations, too!'
As a satire of a phony art world where everything is topsy turvy in the name of money, and where the latest thing is but the insane reflection of the earliest thing (Castafiore enthuses about the invention of the wheel, of fire, of the first hard boiled egg), it is a good satire, but for a Tintin book we look on it askance, for the drawings are nothing but place holders and the characters of our heroes seem hardly to have moved on from the "Picaros."
I wonder if one of these kind of scrapbooks could be worked up for every other of the Tintin books and we would then have a perfect knowledge of the way Herge took popular culture and the social scandals of his day and turned them into authentic novels. I hate to think of this as our last glimpse as Tintin, turned into a living statue like a Charles Ray sculpture, and shown in a museum as "Reporter." And no one suspecting he stands dead and agonized within like a sepulcher.
Book Review: Facinating.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not a Tin Tin comic, this is a view into the way Tin Tin comics were created. Very interesting and exciting to read and look at.
Sincerely, Ira Carmel
Book Review: TinTin in the Land of the Soviets (The Adventures of TinTin)
Summary: 5 Stars
I am of purchasing the complete set of TinTin books for my son. I was pleased with the ease of ordering and the promptness of my receipt of this book. Further, I found the price to be quite fair - much less than the local bookstores. I will definitely complete the rest of the set in the same way.
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