Hergé
Subtitle: the man who created Tintin
By: Pierre Assouline ; translated by Charles Ruas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780195397598
Subjects: Hergé, -- 1907-1983; Cartoonists -- Belgium -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: This first English-language edition retains the core but not the totality of the original French edition.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-258) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: A life in gray: 1907-1925; title: Scoutmaster in the twentieth century: 1925-1929; title: The many births of Tintin: 1929-1934; title: What Chang taught Hergé: 1934-1936; title: Eye of the storm: 1936-1940; title: The golden age: 1940-1944; title: The plight of the Inciviques: 1944-1946; title: The dark years: 1946-1950; title: Toward fulfillment: 1950-1958; title: The demon of purity: 1958-1960; title: Finishing touches: 1960-1973; title: The end of a life, the culmination of his work: 1973-1983.