The multi-million-selling graphic novels are a national institution. Now the complex and sometime murky story of their maker is told in full Assouline is also the biographer of Georges Simenon (creator of Maigret), and Henri Cartier-Bresson Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have begun making the iTintinr books into a triology of feature-length films Assouline gained access to family material on Hergé not widely available. In this book Pierre Assouline reveals the life and art of Tintin's Belgian creator, Georges Prosper Remi, better knownas 'Hergé'. Assouline has had privileged access to personal papers to exploreHergé's life and work and the fascinating ways in which the two intertwine. He does not shy away from such controversial matters as Hergé's support for Belgian imperialism in the Congo or his relationship with the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium. Hergé's books sold millions of copies throughout the world, but, as Assouline shows, the impact of his work goes far beyond his enormous popularity with children - his pioneering use of clean line drawing had a profound influence on artists from Warhol to Lichtenstein and he revolutionized the comic book art form.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539759-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés