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Hergé : the man who created Tintin

Pierre Assouline, Charles Ruas (Translator)
Offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics, this is the first full biography of Herge available for an English-speaking audience. --from publisher description
Print Book, English, 2009
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009
Biography
xi, 276 pages ; 25 cm
9780195397598, 0195397592
319494893
A life in gray: 1907-1925
Scoutmaster in the twentieth century: 1925-1929
The many births of Tintin: 1929-1934
What Chang taught Hergé: 1934-1936
Eye of the storm: 1936-1940
The golden age: 1940-1944
The plight of the Inciviques: 1944-1946
The dark years: 1946-1950
Toward fulfillment: 1950-1958
The demon of purity: 1958-1960
Finishing touches: 1960-1973
The end of a life, the culmination of his work: 1973-1983
This first English-language edition retains the core but not the totality of the original French edition
Translated from the French