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...reading was actually fun with these classic—but alas, now obscure and underappreciated—childrens’ illustrated series. 1. Hergé, “The Adventures of Tintin”: This classic, early twentieth-century cartoon series tells the stories of globetrotting Belgian investigative reporter Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy. The beauty of the books lies in their genuinely thrilling plots. I’d bet that more things happened during one installment of “The Adventures of Tintin” than in the past two years of contemporary American fiction. 2. Rosemary...
...fact, Hergé was contrite about Tintin in Congo, which was never published in English during his lifetime. And in the 1930s he was injecting anti-Nazi storylines into his work. In later books, Tintin is found fighting both communists and capitalists, and by the 1970s he had replaced his cloth cap and plus fours with blue jeans and yoga...
...Hergé's favorite story was the 1960 Tintin in Tibet, which tells of Tintin's search for a Chinese boy, Chang (based on one of Hergé's closest friends), whose plane crashes in the Himalayas. Last year, the Dalai Lama himself awarded a "Truth of Light" award to the Hergé Foundation, which runs the late author's estate, as a gesture of thanks to "significant contributions to the public understanding of Tibet" through the book, written a year after the Dalai Lama was driven into exile by the Chinese government...
...lines. His work involved stylized detail throughout, with no shading and sheer blocks of color. Hergé's impact went beyond the world of comic strips, influencing the work of artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. His storytelling was also pioneering. Tom McCarthy, author of last year's Tintin and the Secret of Literature, says the books create "a huge social tableau... managed with all the subtlety normally attributed to Jane Austen and Henry James...
...hundred years after Hergé's birth, Tintin is finally getting his due recognition. And as he prepares for his Hollywood debut, Tintin can look forward to a new episode in his extraordinary adventures...