As the creator of Tintin; Hergeacute; (1907ndash;1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. When Hergeacute;; born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium; emerged from the controversy surrounding his actions after World War II; his most famous work leapt to international fame and set the standard for European comics. While his style popularized what became known as the ldquo;clear linerdquo; in cartooning; this edited volume shows how his life and art turned out much more complicated than his method.The book opens with Hergeacute;rsquo;s aesthetic techniques; including analyses of his efforts to comprehend and represent absence and the rhythm of mundaneness between panels of action. Broad views of his career describe how Hergeacute; navigated changing ideas of air travel; while precise accounts of his life during Nazi occupation explain how the demands of the occupied press transformed his understanding of what a comics page could do. The next section considers a subject with which Hergeacute; was himself consumed: the fraught lines between high and low art. By reading the late masterpieces of the Tintin series; these chapters situate his artistic legacy. A final section considers how the clear line style has been reinterpreted around the world; from contemporary Francophone writers to a Chinese American cartoonist and on to Turkey; where Tintin has been reinvented into something meaningful to an audience Hergeacute; probably never anticipated.Despite the attention already devoted to Hergeacute;; no multi-author critical treatment of his work exists in English; the majority of the scholarship being in French. With contributors from five continents drawing on a variety of critical methods; this volumersquo;s range will shape the study of Hergeacute; for many years to come.
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