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Title: Tintin: The Complete Companion by Michael Farr, Georges Remi, Herge ISBN: 0-86719-901-6 Publisher: Last Gasp Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Marvellous
Comment: Any successful series tends to spawn a Guide and most of the time they add minimal value to the original series. Not so here. Farr and Remi have collaborated to produce a companion to Tintin that actually enhances the comic strip and makes you re-read them with a new awareness. The layout of the book makes it easy for you to focus on individual adventures, providing a four to six page commentary on the development, accuracy and major plot points. There is an opening section on Herge himself and how Tintin developed over forty-odd years.
It is only after reading this I have realised how accurate Herge was with his subject matter. Again and again you suddenly realise that all the backing images, all the characters are founded on intricate real detail and people to create authenticity.
Quite simply, any fan of Tintin must read this book. It supplies answers to questions you'd never think of and opens you to a whole new side of the hero and his creator.
Rating: 5
Summary: For the Tintin fan who has all the books
Comment: My family collected Tintin and Asterix books when I was growing up. My parents have a complete set as do several of my sisters. "Tintin: The Complete Companion" was the perfect gift for them.
"The Complete Companion" discusses the political, scientific, and sociological climate present when Herge wrote the Tintin books. It is very satisfactory to read about the state of space travel and to know where Herge was citing research and where he was leaping ahead.
This is not a story book but inquisitive minds from 8-88 will enjoy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this and enjoy Tintin even more
Comment: In Tintin: The Complete Companion Michael Farr takes the reader on a trip from the early beginnings of Tintin in The Land of the Soviets to the final and unfinished album of the Alpha-Art. With a contagious enthusiasm Farr describes the creation phase of every album and reveals some remarkable trivia you would normally miss while reading Hergé's masterpieces.
It is refreshing to see how thoroughly Hergé documented himself before letting Tintin loose on yet another adventure. A lot of this documentation is reproduced in this book together with the final drawings, so you quickly get a feel of professionalism Hergé showed in all of his work. This is clearly the main team of this companion.
While guiding the reader through the complete works, Farr does not neglect to describe some of the personal problems Hergé had to deal with during his career. Although Farr gives most of the time his personal view on topics such as Hergé working for a newspaper led by Nazis during the occupation of Belgium and the break-up of Hergé's marriage, the author still gives the readers enough room for their own opinions. The sometimes quite remarkable links between the unpleasant episodes in the life of Hergé and the fantastic adventures Tintin and his elaborate entourage are getting into, can only give the reader more respect for one of the most important European cartoonists of the previous century.
This book is a must have for every Tintin-fan.
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Title: The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Georges Remi Herge, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, Michael Turner ISBN: 0867199032 Publisher: Last Gasp Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo by Herge ISBN: 0867199024 Publisher: Last Gasp Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pharaoh / The Blue Lotus (3 Complete Adventures in One Volume, Vol. 1) by Hergé ISBN: 0316359408 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Tintin: The Calculus Affair / The Red Sea Sharks / Tintin in Tibet (3 Complete Adventures in 1 Volume, Vol. 6) by Hergé ISBN: 0316357243 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Six Adventures of Tintin : Volume I by Herge, Full Cast ISBN: 0807281034 Publisher: Listening Library Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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