Hergé | Tintin Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia "I seek above all to tell a story…and to tell it clearly." —Hergé Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983 ), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" is the French pronunciation of "RG," or his initials reversed. His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003 . Contents Biography Childhood and early career Georges Prosper Remi was born in 1907 in Etterbeek, in Brussels, Belgium to middle class parents, Alexis Remi and his wife Elisabeth Dufour.

[1] His four years of primary schooling coincided with World War I (1914–1918), during which Brussels was occupied by the German Empire. Georges, who displayed an early affinity for drawing, filled the margins of his earliest schoolbooks with doodles of the German invaders. [2] Except for a few drawing lessons which he later took at l'école Saint-Luc he never had any formal training in the visual arts. In 1920 he began studying in the collège Saint-Boniface, a secondary school where the teachers were Catholic priests. [3] Georges joined the Boy Scouts troop of the school, where he was given the totemic name "Renard curieux" (Curious fox). Recently an old strip by him was found on a wall of this school. [4] His first drawings were published in 1922 in Jamais assez, the school's Scout paper, and in Le Boy-Scout Belge, the Scout monthly magazine.

[5] From 1924, he signed his illustrations using the pseudonym "Hergé." [6] His subsequent comics work would be heavily influenced by the ethics of the Scouting movement, as well as the early travel experiences he made with the Scout association. [7] On finishing school in 1925 Georges worked at the Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siècle under the editor Norbert Wallez, a Catholic abbot who kept a photograph of Mussolini in his office. [8] The following year, he published his first cartoon series, Totor , in the Scouting magazine Le Boy-Scout Belge. [9] In 1928, he was put in charge of producing material for the Le XXe Siècle's new weekly supplement for children, Le Petit Vingtième . He began illustrating The Adventures of Flup, Nénesse, Poussette, and Cochonnet, a strip written by a member of the newspaper's sports staff, but soon became dissatisfied with this series. Wallez asked Remi to create a young hero, a Catholic reporter who would fight for good all over the world.

[8] He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict words coming out of the characters' mouths, inspired by their use by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan. [10] Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929) Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , by "Hergé," appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929, and ran until 8 May 1930 . The strip chronicled the adventures of a young reporter named Tintin and his pet fox terrier Snowy (Milou) as they journeyed through the Soviet Union. The character of Tintin was partly inspired by Georges's brother Paul Remi, an officer in the Belgian army. In January 1930 Hergé introduced Quick & Flupke (Quick et Flupke), a new comic strip about two street urchins from Brussels, in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième. For many years, Hergé continued to produce this less well-known series in parallel with his Tintin stories.

In June he began the second Tintin adventure, Tintin in the Congo (then the colony of Belgian Congo), followed by Tintin in America and Cigars of the Pharaoh . On 20 July 1932 he married Germaine Kieckens , the secretary of the director of the Le XXe Siècle, [8] whom he had first met in 1927. [11] They had no children, and eventually divorced in 1977 . [12] The early Tintin adventures each took about a year to complete, upon which they were released in book form by Le Petit Vingtième and, from 1934 , by the -05-0023Casterman publishing house. Hergé continued to revise these stories in subsequent editions, including a later conversion to color. The Blue Lotus (1936) Hergé reached a watershed with The Blue Lotus , the fifth Tintin adventure. At the close of the previous story, Cigars of the Pharaoh, he had mentioned that Tintin's next adventure would bring him to China.

Father Gosset, the chaplain to the Chinese students at the Catholic University of Leuven, wrote to Hergé urging him to be sensitive about what he wrote about China. Hergé agreed, and in the spring of 1934 Gosset introduced him to Chang Chong-jen (Chang Chongren), a young sculpture student at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. [13] The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Chang introduced Hergé to Chinese culture and the techniques of Chinese art. As a result of this experience, Hergé strove in The Blue Lotus, and in subsequent Tintin adventures, to be meticulously accurate in depicting the places which Tintin visited. As a token of appreciation he added a fictional " Chang " to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese boy who meets and befriends Tintin. At the end of his studies in Brussels, Chang returned home to China, and Hergé lost contact with him during the invasion of China by Japan and the subsequent Chinese Civil War. More than four decades passed before the two friends would meet again.

World War II The Second World War broke out on 1 September 1939 with the Nazi invasion of Poland. Hergé was mobilized as a reserve lieutenant, and had to interrupt Tintin's adventures in the middle of Land of Black Gold . [14] Prior to the invasion of neutral Belgium by German forces, Hergé published humoristic drawings in L'Ouest, a paper run by future collaborator Raymond de Becker and which strongly advocated that Belgium not join the war alongside its World War One allies France and Britain. [15] By the summer of 1940 Belgium had fallen to Germany along with most of Western Continental Europe. Le Petit Vingtième, in which Tintin's adventures had until then been published, was shut down by the Nazi occupiers. [16] However, Hergé accepted an offer to produce a new Tintin strip in Le Soir , Brussels' leading French daily, which had been appropriated as the mouthpiece of the occupation forces. [17] He left Land of the Black Gold unfinished, launching instead into The Crab with the Golden Claws , the first of six Tintin stories which he produced during the war.

As the war progressed, two factors arose that led to a revolution in Hergé's style. Firstly, paper shortages forced Tintin to be published in a daily three- or four-frame strip, rather than the two full pages every week which had been the practice on Le Petit Vingtième. [18] In order to create tension at the end of each strip rather than the end of each page, Hergé had to introduce more frequent gags and faster-paced action. Secondly, Hergé had to move the focus of Tintin's adventures away from current affairs, in order to avoid controversy. He turned to stories with an escapist flavour: an expedition to a meteorite ( The Shooting Star ), an intriguing mystery and treasure hunt ( The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure ), and a quest to undo an ancient Incan curse ( The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun ). In these stories Hergé placed more emphasis on characters than plot, and indeed Tintin's most memorable companions, Captain Haddock and Cuthbert Calculus (in French Professeur Tryphon Tournesol), were introduced at this time.

Haddock debuted in The Crab with the Golden Claws and Calculus in Red Rackham's Treasure. The Shooting Star was nonetheless controversial. The story line involved a race between two ship crews trying to reach a meteorite which had landed in the Arctic. Hergé chose a subject that was as fantastic as possible rather than issues related to the crisis of the times to avoid trouble with the censors. Nonetheless politics intruded. The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries ("Europe") while their underhanded rivals were Americans (although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship; see the image on the The Shooting Star page), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called "Jewish features." [19] Tintin also flies in a German Arado Ar 196 plane. In a scene which appeared when the story was being serialised in Le Soir two Jews, depicted in classic anti-Semitic caricature, are shown watching Philippulus harassing Tintin.

One actually looks forward to the end of the world, arguing that it would mean that he would not be obliged to settle with his creditors (see the image on the Ideology of Tintin page). In 1943 Hergé met -05-0044Edgar P. Jacobs, another comics artist, whom he hired to help revise the early Tintin albums. [20] Jacobs' most significant contribution would be his redrawing of the costumes and backgrounds in the revised edition of King Ottokar's Sceptre which gave it a Balkan feel—in the original, the castle guards had been dressed as British Beefeaters. Jacob also began collaborating with Hergé on a new Tintin adventure, The Seven Crystal Balls (see above). During and after the German occupation Hergé was accused of being a collaborator because of the Nazi control of the paper, and he was briefly taken in for interrogation after the war. [21] He claimed that he was simply doing a job under the occupation, like a plumber or carpenter. After the war Hergé admitted that: "I recognize that I myself believed that the future of the West could depend on the New Order.

For many, democracy had proved a disappointment, and the New Order brought new hope. In light of everything which has happened, it is of course a huge error to have believed for an instant in the New Order." [22] The Tintin character was never depicted as adhering to these beliefs. However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714 , [23] though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine (or u-boat) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714 . [24] Post-war troubles The occupation of Brussels ended on 3 September 1944 . Tintin's adventures were interrupted toward the end of The Seven Crystal Balls when the Allied authorities shut down Le Soir. [25] During the chaotic post-occupation period, Hergé was arrested four times by different groups.

[26] He was publicly accused of being a Nazi Rexist sympathizer, a claim which was largely unfounded, as the Tintin adventures published during the war were scrupulously free of politics (the only dubious point occurring in The Shooting Star , discussed above). In fact, one or two stories published before the war had been critical of fascism; most prominently, King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a coup attempt that could be seen as an allegory of the Anschluss, Nazi Germany's takeover of Austria. Nevertheless, like other former employees of the Nazi-controlled press, Hergé found himself barred from newspaper work. He spent the next two years working with Jacobs, as well as a new assistant, Alice Devos, adapting many of the early Tintin adventures into colour. [27] Tintin's exile ended on 26 September 1946 . The publisher and wartime resistance fighter Raymond Leblanc provided the financial support and anti-Nazi credentials to launch the comics magazine titled Tintin with Hergé.

The weekly publication featured two pages of Tintin's adventures, beginning with the remainder of The Seven Crystal Balls , as well as other comic strips and assorted articles. [28] It became highly successful, with circulation surpassing 100,000 every week. Tintin had always been credited as simply "by Hergé", without mention of Edgar Pierre Jacobs and Hergé's other assistants. As Jacobs' contribution to the production of the strip increased, he asked for a joint credit in 1944, which Hergé refused. They continued to collaborate intensely until 1946, when Jacobs went on to produce his own comics for Tintin magazine, including the widely-acclaimed Blake and Mortimer. [29] Personal crisis A cartoon of an overworking Hergé with his Siamese cat Thaïke, suffering from the pressure of his characters published in a 1947 Tintin Magazine. The increased demands which Tintin magazine placed on Hergé began to take their toll. In 1947 Prisoners of the Sun was interrupted for two months when an exhausted Hergé took a long vacation.

[30] Hergé, disillusioned by his treatment and that of many of his colleagues and friends after the war, planned to migrate with his wife Germaine to Argentina, but later abandoned the plan when he began a love affair. [31] In 1949 , while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold (the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break. [32] He suffered another breakdown in early 1950 , while working on Destination Moon . [33] In order to lighten Hergé's workload Hergé Studios was set up on 6 April 1950. [34] The studio employed several assistants to aid Hergé in the production of The Adventures of Tintin. Foremost among these was artist Bob de Moor, who collaborated with Hergé on the remaining Tintin adventures, filling in details and backgrounds such as the spectacular lunar landscapes in Explorers on the Moon .

[35] With the aid of the studio, Hergé managed to produce The Calculus Affair from 1954 until 1956 , followed by The Red Sea Sharks in 1956--05-00701957. By the end of this period his personal life was again in crisis. His marriage with Germaine was breaking apart after twenty-five years; he had fallen in love with Fanny Vlamynck, a young artist who had recently joined the Hergé Studios . [36] Furthermore, he was plagued by recurring nightmares filled with whiteness. [37] He consulted a Swiss psychoanalyst, who advised him to give up working on Tintin. [38] Instead, he finished Tintin in Tibet , started the year before. Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959 , Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus .

The adventure allowed Hergé to confront his nightmares by filling the book with austere alpine landscapes, giving the adventure a powerfully spacious setting. The normally rich cast of characters was pared to a minimum — Tintin, Captain Haddock, and the Sherpa Tharkey — as the story focused on Tintin's dogged search for Chang. Hergé came to regard this highly personal and emotionally riveting Tintin adventure as his favorite. [39] The completion of the story seemed also to signal an end to his problems: he was no longer troubled by nightmares, divorced Germaine in 1977 (they had separated in 1960 ), and finally married Fanny Vlamynck on 20 May of the same year. [40] Last years The last three complete Tintin adventures were produced at a much-reduced pace: The Castafiore Emerald in 1961 , Flight 714 in 1966 , and Tintin and the Picaros in 1975 . However, by this time Tintin had begun to move into other media.

From the start of Tintin magazine, Raymond Leblanc had used Tintin for merchandising and advertisements. In 1961 the second Tintin -05-0085film was made: Tintin and the Golden Fleece , starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin [41] (an earlier stop motion-animated film was made in 1947 called The Crab with the Golden Claws , but it was screened publicly only once). [42] Several traditionally-animated Tintin films have also been made, beginning with -05-0088The Calculus Case in 1961. The financial success of Tintin allowed Hergé to devote more of his time to travel. He travelled widely across Europe, and in 1971 visited America for the first time, meeting some of the Native Americans in the United States whose culture had long been a source of fascination for him. [43] In 1973 he visited Taiwan, accepting an invitation offered three decades before by the Kuomintang government, in appreciation of The Blue Lotus .

[44] In a remarkable instance of life mirroring art, Hergé managed to resume contact with his old friend Chang Chong-jen , years after Tintin rescued the fictional Chang Chong-Chen in the closing pages of Tintin in Tibet . Chang had been reduced to a street sweeper by the Cultural Revolution, before becoming the head of the Fine Arts Academy in Shanghai, China during the 1970s. He returned to Europe for a reunion with Hergé in 1981 , and settled in Paris in -05-00961985, where he died in 1989 . [45] Hergé died on 3 March 1983, aged 75. [46] He had been severely sick for several years, but the nature of his disease was unclear, possibly leukemia or a form of porphyria. His death was hastened by the HIV he had acquired during his weekly blood transfusions. [47] The market artist in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn He left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-Art , unfinished.

Following his expressed desire not to have Tintin handled by another artist, it was published posthumously as a set of sketches and notes in 1986 . In 1987, Fanny closed the Hergé Studios , replacing it with the Hergé Foundation. In 1988, the Tintin magazine was discontinued. Hergé's second cameo in The Land of Black Gold animated episode An animated cartoon version of Hergé makes a number of cameo appearances in The Adventures of Tintin animated series (see List of Hergé cameo appearances ). Hergé gave all rights to the creation of dolls and merchandise after his death to Michel Aroutcheff. Michel was Hergé's neighbour and a good friend. Aroutcheff then sold on these rights only keeping the right to make Tintin's red rocket when he goes to the moon. Bibliography A short comic charting the moon landings published in Paris Match Appropriation In 1989 an Anarchist graphic novel entitled -05-0122The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free was published in England under the pseudonym "Jack Daniels".

The propaganda story is not related to any of the original Tintin novels, but mimics Hergé's style and includes several Tintin characters. Since the book was published without copyright and was released into the public domain, Hergé's estate could not take legal action. This was just one of many cases of unofficial books being released, though often, as in the case of Tintin in Thailand , Hergé's estate were able to take legal action. For a list of such books see -05-0124List of Tintin parodies and pastiches. Awards and recognition 1971: Adamson Awards, Sweden 1972: Yellow Kid "una vita per il cartooning" (lifetime award) at the festival of Lucca [49] 1973: Grand Prix Saint Michel of the city of Brussels 1999: Included in the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame 2003: Included in the Eisner Award Hall of Fame as the Judge's choice 2005: Included in the running for De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian).

In the Flemish version he ended on 24th place. In the Walloon version he came 8th. 2007: Selected as the main motif for a high-value commemorative coin, the Euro gold and silver commemorative 100th anniversary of Hergé's birth commemorative coin minted in 2007, with a face value of 20 euro. On the obverse there is a self portrait of Hergé on the left. To the right of the portrait there is a portrait of Tintin. In the bottom of the coin Hergé's signature is depicted. According to the UNESCO's [ndex Translationum, Hergé is the ninth-most-often-translated French-language author, the second-most-often-translated Belgian author after Georges Simenon and the second-most-often-translated French-language comics author behind René Goscinny. [50] 1652 Hergé , an asteroid of the main belt is named after him (see also 1683 Castafiore ).

References Famous Belgians - Georges Remi (Herge), the creator of Tin Tin Georges Remi (Herge), the creator of TinTin Georges Remi (1907-1983), better known as Hergé, was the creator of Tin Tin (Kuifje) and many other world-famous cartoon characters. He was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. His creation Tin Tin is thought to be based on his brother who was five years younger than him. As a young boy, the only thing that would keep Hergé quiet was a piece of paper and a pencil. In school he was a very able student and always top of the class, except when it came to drawing. He was only interested in one thing, cartoons. Most of the inspiration of his early cartoons came from the time he spent travelling round Europe with the Belgian boy-scouts. During these travels he also became fascinated with America and the Indians. His first cartoon character is believed to have been a young boy who stood up against the German occupation (1914-1918). These were drawings in his school books which, unfortunately, have been lost.

His first published series came with “The Adventures of Totor” (1926-1930) in the monthly publication Le Boy-Scout Belge. After finishing school in 1925, Hergé works as a clerk at the daily newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. One year later he has to leave to serve his country and joins the army for 12 months. He then returns to Le Vingtième Siècle as photographer and special illustrator. During this time, Hergé is heavily influenced by Norbert Wallez, the editor of the paper, who takes a special interest in the young artist and encourages him to expand his knowledge. Hergé even gets engaged to Wallez’s secretary, Germaine Kieckens, whom he marries in 1932. When Wallez decides to expand his newspaper and include a section for children “Le Petit Vingtième”, Hergé provides “Les Aventures de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet”, followed by more “Totor” illustrations and finally, on 10 January 1929, “The Adventures of Tin Tin”.

In the first story, Tin Tin travels to the Sovjet Union. One year later, Hergé creates “Kwik en Flupke”, the story of two boys from Brussels. Tin Tin is off to the Kongo next, followed by America. Hergé is now becoming very popular and in 1932 he signs a contract with Casterman, a large publisher. From then on, Tin Tin becomes famous all round the world. In 1936, Hergé creates “The Adventures of Jo, Suus en Jokko” and is kept very busy leading up to World War II, providing illustrations for advertisements and producing a Tin Tin adventure about every 15 months. Hergé recruits the help of two assistants, Alice Devos and Edgar Pierre Jacobs (better known for his later creations of “Blake en Mortimer”). For various reasons, publication is then interrupted and Tin Tin does not appear again until 26 September 1946 when the weekly publication “Kuifje” is born. This is followed by a French edition in 1948 which further widens the worldwide popularity of Tin Tin.

In 1960, Hergé divorces his first wife (in 1977 he gets married for the second time to Fanny Vlaminck). Hergé continues to travel all over Europe and visits America for the first time in 1971. He later travels to China and Taiwan in 1973. In recent years, there has been a Tin Tin revival and specialist shops selling Tin Tin books, T-shirts, mugs, pyjama’s, socks, jumpers, clocks, etc. have sprung up all over the world. In total, more than 80 million Tin Tin books have been sold.

Here are all the Tin Tin titles (in Flemish) : Kuifje in de Sovjetunie (1929) Kuifje in Afrika (1930) De sigaren van de Farao (1932) De Blauwe Lotus (1934) De Scepter van Ottokar (1938) Kuifje en het Zwarte Goud (1939) De Krab met de Gulden Scharen (1940) De Geheimzinnige Ster (1941) Het Geheim van de Eenhoorn / De Schat van Scharlaken Rackham (1942) De Zeven Kristallen Bollen / De Zonnetempel (1943) Raket naar de Maan / Mannen op de Maan (1950) De Zaak Zonnebloem (1954) De Juwelen van Bianca Castafiore (1962) Vlucht 714 (1966) Kuifje en de Picaro’s (1974) Further Information / Sources : Use the search box below to search famousbelg

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As a child, Herge had a gift for drawing but never had any formal training in the visual arts. He attended both school and the boy scouts during the World War 1 and post-World War 1 Era. After he finished school Herge published his first ever cartoon: "The Adventures of Totor" ... See full bio » Born: Share this page: Related News a list of 10 people created 21 Oct 2015 a list of 5188 people created 11 months ago a list of 149 people created 9 months ago a list of 41 people created 3 weeks ago a list of 19 people created 1 day ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How Much Have You Seen? How much of Hergé's work have you seen?

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Le sceptre d'Ottokar" - 2 episodes, 1992) (graphic novel "L'Oreille cassée" - 2 episodes, 1992) (graphic novel "L'affaire Tournesol" - 2 episodes, 1991) (graphic novel "L'ile noire" - 2 episodes, 1991) (graphic novel "Le lotus bleu" - 2 episodes, 1991) (graphic novel "Les cigares du Pharaon" - 2 episodes, 1991) (graphic novel "Le secret de la Licorne" - 2 episodes, 1991) (graphic novel "Le crabe aux pinces d'or" - 2 episodes, 1991) (graphic novel "Tintin en Amérique" - 1 episode, 1992) (graphic novel "L'étoile Mysterieuse" - 1 episode, 1992) (graphic novel "Le trésor de Rackham le Rouge" - 1 episode, 1991) Hergé (Georges Remi

) | Lambiek Comiclopedia (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983, Belgium) Cover drawing for Tintin issue 3, 1947 ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 Hergé, a pseudonym of Georges Remi's initials (G.R.) in reverse (R.G.), is the creator of the highly popular comic character 'Tintin'.

This famous Belgian artist is often considered to be the most influential European comic artist ever and his "clear line" style was widely copied by new generation of comic artists. Born in Etterbeek, Brussels, Georges Prosper Remi, like so many other Catholic boys, joined the boy scouts - an experience which greatly influenced his personality. In fact, the character Tintin was often compared with the stereotype of a boy scout. Hergé started his artistic career in a scouting magazine, Le Boy-Scout Belge, at first with illustrations, but later also with his first comic strip, 'Totor, C.D. des Hannetons', a predecessor of Tintin (1926). Hergé had been employed by the right-wing Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siècle since 1925, where at first he worked at the subscriptions department. By 1928, the paper's editor-in-chief, the priest, or "Abbé", Norbert Wallez asked Hergé to set up the youth supplement of the paper, Le Petit Vingtième.

Tintin au Pays des Soviets ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 It was in this supplement, that on the 10th of January, 1929, the first episode of 'Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' ('Tintin au Pays des Soviets') was printed. Soon this pioneering European adventure series was a major hit, with a huge crowd welcoming a real life Tintin actor when he "returned to Brussels" after his adventures in the east. After this first adventure, Hergé sent his young reporter to Africa, the USA and Egypt. The early Tintin adventures were rather location driven and full of racist stereotypes, prompted by the time they were created in. The discussion about the publication 'Tintin in Africa' is still a hot topic, even today. Tintin au Congo ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 However, Hergé develivered his first masterpiece with 'The Blue Lotus' ('Le Lotus Bleu') in 1936, an episode in which Tintin traveled to the Far East. The depictions of the Chinese people were rather atypical for the time.

Unlike the previous episodes, the story is characterized by its well-documented cultural and geographical accuracy, mainly thanks to Tchang Tchong-jen, a Chinese who studied in Brussels. From now on, the characters carried the stories and not so much the locations they visited. Covers vor Le Petit Vingtième (30/5/1935 and 19/1/1939) ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 In the following stories, 'The Broken Ear' (1937), 'The Black Island' (1938) and 'King Ottokar's Sceptre' (1939), Hergé's scriptwriting and graphics improved even more. By now, Tintin had also gained popularity outside of Belgium, since his adventures were also printed in Coeurs Vaillants in France and in O Papagaio in Portugal. Le XXe Siècle published the first Tintin book collections, but it was the Tournay based publisher Louis Casterman who would publish the Tintin books from 1934 onwards.

Quick et Flupke ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 Throughout the 1930s, Tintin was hardly Hergé's only activity. Together with colleagues like Jean Vermeire (Jiv), Eugène van Nijverseel (Evany) and Paul Jamin (Jam) he was largely responsible for the entire content of Le Petit Vingtième. While sending Tintin to far-off locations, he found inspiration in his own childhood in Brussels for his gag series about the two mischievous boys 'Quick et Flupke', that appeared in the supplement from 1930. He also experimented with other comics, like the animal story 'Popol et Virginie chez les lapinos' (1934) and two stories with 'Jo, Zette et Jocko' (1935-37), but these were short-lived. Hergé also provided many drawings for books, advertisements and magazines. When the Second World War broke out, Le Vingtième Siècle disappeared, leaving Tintin in the middle of the desert in the story 'Land of Black Gold' ('Tintin au pays de l'or noir').

Hergé then made a decission that would cause him a lot of criticism in later years - he found employment with Le Soir, a paper that was by then under German supervision. He filled the juvenile supplement Le Soir Jeunesse together with Jacques van Melkebeke and Paul Jamin , where he was able to continue the adventures of his star reporter. Despite of the tensions of the war, Hergé crafted some of his best stories during the 1940-45 period, often in collaboration with Van Melkebeke for the plots and the scripts. Hergé's style matured even more into the Clear Line as we know today in stories like 'The Crab with the Golden Claws' (1941), 'The Shooting Star' (1942), 'The Secret of the Unicorn' (1943) and 'Red Rackham's Treasure' (1944). He also introduced colorful new characters like Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus (Tournesol). It was also a fruitful period on other artistic fields - Hergé and Jacques van Melkebeke wrote two Tintin plays.

The adventures of Tintin, or 'De Avonturen van Kuifje', were introduced to the Dutch speaking audience in Het Laatste Nieuws, a paper that was also under German supervision. First meeting between Tintin and Captain Haddock (Le Soir Jeunesse, 9 January 1941) ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 Though it was not completely clear whether Hergé was actually "wrong" during the war, he always claimed to have no pro-german sympathies, it is certain that he has made some anti-semitic cartoons and illustrations. Even his Tintin story 'The Shooting Star' features some stereotypical depictions of Jews. His collaboration and the sometimes anti-semitic elements in his work left him a "persona non grata" for a long time in Belgium after the war. Jo, Zette et Jocko ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 After the liberation, Hergé got a ban from publication in newspapers. He continued to work on a project that he had started back in 1942, reworking the old Tintin stories for publication in color albums.

Hergé got assistance from former opera singer Edgar Pierre Jacobs , who redrew and colored the early Tintin albums, starting with 'Tintin in Africa'. Lettering and certain plot developments were also revised, while later stories were merely mounted from 3 to 4 strips per page. By now, the Tintin books were not only published in French, but also in Dutch. And more translations would follow. Hergé got the opportunity to continue Tintin's new adventures when publisher Raymond Leblanc proposed him to launch the character's own magazine. The first issue of Tintin magazine appeared in September 1946 under editorial command of Jacques van Melkebeke, who was replaced by André Fernez a couple of months later. Hergé had complete artistic control over the magazine's content. 'Prisoners of the Sun' ('Le Temple du Soleil') was the first Tintin story to be published in the magazine. Other artists besides Hergé that filled the early issues were Edgar Pierre Jacobs , Paul Cuvelier and Jacques Laudy .

The world's second most famous moon landing (1953) ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 Hergé assembled more assistants around him when Jacobs left in 1947 and the official Studio Hergé was launched in 1950. Artists like Guy Dessicy and Franz Jagueneau joined the team, as did the colorists Josette Baujot, France Ferrari and Fanny Vlamynck. The latter would become Hergé's second wife after his divorce from Germaine Kieckens. In 1954, the team was reinforced by Jo-El Azara , Bob de Moor and Jacques Martin , who brought along his own assistants Roger Leloup and Michel Desmarets. Tintin's star was rising, but Hergé's increasing depressions and marital problems caused for longer and longer gaps between new stories. Even the publication of running stories was often interupted.

This didn't stop Hergé from making some of his most memorable stories, such as the moon cycle, 'Tintin in Tibet' (1958-59), Hergé's most personal and emotional work, and the hilarious 'Castafiore Emerald' (1961-62). The studios continued to rework and update older stories, while also producing artwork for merchandise. Tintin au Tibet (1959, unpublished in album) ©Hergé/Moulinsart 2012 The final completed Tintin story was 1976's 'Tintin and the Picaros', which is often considered Hergé's worst effort. One of the reasons a lot of fans were disappointed was that Tintin wore jeans in this story instead of his usual tan pants. Hergé's reunion with Tchang Tchong-jen was widely covered by the media in 1981, but by then the artist was already ill from what was presumably leukemia or porphyria. Hergé passed away in March 1983 at the age of 75. His death made headlines all over the world.

His work-in-progress 'Tintin et l'Alph-art' was published posthumously, unfinished and in sketched-out form. Tintin has known several adaptations to cinema, the first attempt was the 1947 puppet film based on 'The Crab with the Golden Claws'. Two real live action films followed in 1961 and 1964 starring sports instructor Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin. An animated TV series was made by Belvision between 1958 and 1962. The studio, part of the publishing house Lombard, also made a feature film based on 'The Temple of the Sun' in 1969 and 'Tintin and the Lake of Sharks' in 1972, based on an original script by Greg . The latest version was the 2011 3D motion picture 'The Adventures of Tintin' by Steven Spielberg. As one of the grandmasters of European comic art, Hergé has been an influence on a great many artists, including Edgar P.

Jacobs , Willy Vandersteen , Bob De Moor , Pom , Jef Nys , Marc Sleen , André Franquin , Victor Hubinon , Jacques Martin , Albert Uderzo , Merho , Claire Brétecher , Benoit Peeters , Jacques Tardi , Joost Swarte , Ever Meulen , Theo Van Den Boogaard , Martin Lodewijk and, in the US, Charles Burns . An image of Tintin reading a newspaper from 'The Broken Ear' inspired Roy Lichtenstein 's pop-art painting 'Tintin Reading' (1993). Hergé's legacy is carefully guarded by his widow, who closed the Hergé Studios and launched the Hergé Foundation in 1987, which is known as Moulinsart S.A. since 1996. Together with her new husband, business man Nick Rodwell, she is notorious for making strict and sometimes controversial copyright claims regarding her late husband's works.

Those willing to delve deeper into the life and works of one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, are highly recommended to check out Benoît Peeters 'Le Monde d'Hergé', an excellent effort to put Hergé and his work in context. Recently, the trio of Stanislas , Fromental and Bocquet added an excellent Hergé comic biography to the must-have list for all Tintin fans.

Studio Hergé in 1956: Bob de Moor, Jo-El Azara, Jacques Martin, Michel Desmarets, Baudouin van den Branden de Reeth, Josette Baujot, Hergé, France Ferrari, Fanny Vlamynck and Alexis Remi (Hergé's father) Hergé - Biography - IMDb Biography Showing all 26 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (12) | Personal Quotes (5) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) Born under the name Georges Remi on May 22, 1907 in Brussels, Belgium. As a child, Herge had a gift for drawing but never had any formal training in the visual arts. He attended both school and the boy scouts during the World War 1 and post-World War 1 Era. After he finished school Herge published his first ever cartoon: "The Adventures of Totor" for Le Boy-Scout Belge (a scouting magazine).

In 1928, he became in charge of the producing material for Le Petit Vingtieme (The Little Twentieth) a youth supplement newspaper. He began illustrating "The Adventures of Flup", "Nenesse", "Poussette", "Cochonnet", etc. January 10, 1929, Herge introduced a cartoon about a traveling Belgium reporter (Tintin) accompanied by his fox terrier (Snowy) traveling the Soviet Union. By 1930, Herge published the very first Tintin book: "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets". Tintin soon became Herge's "ligne Claire" (French for clear line) legacy. The later adventures of Tintin involved other locations of the world from China all the way to America. Within the next 50 years Tintin became one of the most popular European comics of the 20th Century, due to its well-researched plots, appealing characters, humor, political thrillers, & real world settings.

After completing 23 books, Herge passed away on March 3, 1983, leaving "Tintin & the Alpha-Art" (The 24th book) unfinished. Despite Herge not being able to give his Tintin series the proper end, all of his works along with Tintin will continue to inspire artists and enchant readers from the years to come. - IMDb Mini Biography By: J LeGault Spouse (2) (1977 - 3 March 1983) (his death) Germaine Kieckens [Ligne claire] Known for creating characters drawn in Ligne claire style [global] Loves to feature foreign lands in his works Trivia (12) Created Tintin, a punk-haired teenage reporter and super-sleuth, in 1929 in the children's supplement of the Belgian Catholic newspaper "Le Vingtième Siecle." Tintin moved into his own magazine in 1946. Twenty-three complete stories were produced, plus one story that was incomplete at the time of Hergé 's death.

Tintin became the Belgian equivalent of Mickey Mouse, popular in every country around the world except for the United States. His pseudonym is the French phonetic pronunciation of the letters "R" and "G," taken from "Remi" and "Georges." Directly inspired a number of contemporary cartoonists, including Joost Swarte and Dennis Tucker. In 1989, an Anarchist graphic novel titled "Breaking Free" was published in Britain, featuring unauthorized appearances of Hergé 's characters Tintin and Captain Archibald Haddock as the main protagonists. The political propaganda story is of Tintin and Haddock as Union laborers who join a revolutionary movement that, at the novel's end, is about to topple the British government ( Hergé himself held very conservative political views and probably would have been horrified by this). Since the book was intentionally published without copyright, no legal action could be taken against the creators or publishers. Was inspired by Jules Verne 's work. "The Adventures of Tintin" has been translated into more than 50 languages around the world.

Has written & drawn a total of 23 complete and 1 incomplete volumes of "The Adventures of Tintin" series. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein citing him as a strong influence on their work. In 1982, Belgian Society of Astronomy named a small planetoid, situated between Mars and Jupiter, after him. Didn't draw Tintin's famous quiff until the second album. In the first album, Tintin's hair was combed to the front, but during a chase scene in a vintage Mercedes convertible, Tintin's hair flew back, thus giving him his trademark quiff. His inspiration for his famous cartoon character "Tintin" came from the adventures in 1928 of a young 15 year old Danish boy, later actor, Palle Huld who won a contest in the newspaper "Politiken". The prize was an around the world trip in the occasion of the centennial of author Jules Verne . Palle Huld wrote a book about his marvelous trip; "Around the World in 44 Days with Palle" which became world famous and thus inspired Hergé .

Has several cameos as a blonde-haired animated character in "The Adventures of Tintin" (1991). Personal Quotes (5) The idea for the character of Tintin and the sort of adventures that would befall him came to me, I believe, in five minutes, the moment I first made a sketch of the figure of this hero: that is to say, he had not haunted my youth nor even my dreams. Although it's possible that as a child I imagined myself in the role of a sort of Tintin. What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin? By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality. If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'. Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! See also Herg�, Son of Tintin - Benoit Peeters - Google Books Herg�, Son of Tintin 0 Reviews Tintinology [tin-tin-ol-uh-jee] noun — The study of the works of comic creator Herg� and the cultural impact of Tintin, his best-known and most influential character.

The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since they first appeared as an insert in the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Vinti�me Si�cle in 1929. Available for the first time in English, this insightful biography delves deep into the psyche of Tintin creator Georges Remi and his public persona Herg�. Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Herg� and the last person to interview Remi, Beno�t Peeters tells the complete story behind Herg�’s origins and shows how and why the nom de plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin’s popularity exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Herg�’s identity to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Herg� lived out a romanticized version of life for Remi.

Millions have traveled alongside Tintin and Snowy through books, animated television series, theatrical performances, exhibitions, documentaries, and movies, including Steven Spielberg’s fall 2011 The Adventures of Tintin. Now Tintinologists have the opportunity to better understand the complex and sometimes dark personality of Tintin’s creator and his carefully crafted public persona. Herge | Belgian cartoonist | Britannica.com Belgian cartoonist Will Eisner Hergé, pen name of Georgés Remi (born May 22, 1907, Etterbeek , near Brussels , Belg.—died March 3, 1983, Brussels), Belgian cartoonist who created the comic strip hero Tintin , a teenage journalist. Over the next 50 years, Tintin’s adventures filled 23 albums and sold 70 million copies in some 30 languages. Throughout the years the young reporter remained recognizably the same, with his signature blond quiff and his plus fours.

Hergé, whose pen name derived from the pronunciation of his transposed initials, published his first comic strip—Totor, de la Patrouille des Hannetons (“Totor of the June Bug Patrol”), for Le Boy-Scout Belge (“The Belgian Boy Scout”)—at age 19. In 1929 he created Tintin for the children’s supplement (a weekly feature called Le Petit Ventième) of the daily newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. Tintin’s first adventure was later published as the album Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, but it was not until 1958 that The Black Island became the first Tintin album in English translation. It was followed, with growing success, by other albums taking Tintin and his friends on adventures in many different countries (though Hergé himself traveled little, preferring to live quietly in Brussels). The stories, which appealed to children because of their gentle humour and eventful plots, were never violent; the villains might be menacing and the plots filled with action, but in almost every case heroes and villains emerged largely unscathed.

The drawings, especially in the later albums, lovingly portray the details of Tintin’s world, though they clearly reflect the attitudes of the era. A museum dedicated to the work of Hergé, designed by French architect Christian de Portzamparc , opened in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belg., in June 2009. Learn More in these related articles: The Adventures Of Tintin | Know Your Meme The Adventures Of Tintin Updated May 03, 2016 at 08:33PM EDT by CommunityMindedMiner . Added Apr 25, 2016 at 12:39AM EDT by CommunityMindedMiner . Like us on Facebook! PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry. This submission is currently being researched & evaluated! You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.

Status Hergé Tags Wikipedia About The Adventures of Tintin is a Franco-Belgian comic book series created by Belgian artist Georges Remi (Best known as Hergé ) and is published by Casterman. Following our main characters, the hero of the series, Belgian reporter Tintin, his dog companion Snowy (French: Milou) as they go through many adventures from 1929 to Hergé’s final completed adventure in 1976. Other major protagonists featured in the series are Captain Haddock, clumsy British detectives, Thomson and Thompson (French: Dupont et Dupond) and the intelligent but hearing impaired Professor Calculus (French: Professor Tournesol) The series of books is known for it’s cleanly detailed illustrations from Hergé’s clear line (french: ligne claire) drawing style, to it’s well structured plots and stories associating with a variety of genres and for it’s slapstick humour. As of 2007, The Adventures of Tintin series has been published in over 70 languages and has printed over 200 million copies worldwide plus many adaptations including a Blockbuster motion capture film.

Origin The characters of the series have references and influences from real life personalities, especially the character Tintin is based off Hergé’s earlier works, The Adventures of Totor, Chief Scout of the Cockshafers (French: Les Aventures de Totor, C.P. des hannetons) and is a inspiration of Danish Film actor Palle Huld who traveled the world at the age of 15 in 1928. History There are 24 official complete titles published from 1930 to now on. From Tintin and the Land of the Soviets to Tintin and the Picaros. Tintin and Alph-Art, an unfinished story due to Hergé’s death, was published posthumously in 1986. Live-Action Films (1961, 1964) The first two live-action film adaptations (Tintin and the Golden Fleece (French: Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d’Or and Tintin and the Blue Oranges (French: Tintin et les oranges bleues) of the heroic reporter and his companion dog were two original stories not based off the original books.

With Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin and Captain Haddock portrayed by Georges Wilson (Mystery of the Golden Fleece) and Jean Bouise (The Blue Oranges). A third live-action Tintin film was scheduled to be made in 1967 but was cancelled. Belvision Animated Films (1969-1972) The first traditionally animated films were 1969’s Tintin and Temple of the Sun (French: Tintin et le temple du soleil) (Based of The Seven Crystal Balls and 1972’s Prisoners of the Sun) and Tintin and Lake of Sharks (French: Tintin et le lac aux requins) (A original story) Animated TV Show (1991-1992) 39 Episodes based of each Tintin book (Except for Land of the Soviets and Tintin and the Congo) have been produced by Ellipse Programme and Nelvana Limited in two years. Though this adaptation has been toned down and plots have slightly changed from the original version to be suitable for younger audiences, it still stays faithful to the original and is one of the most faithful adaptations to the originals to this day.

Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn (Hollywood 2011 film) A film adaptation of Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn was released in 2011 and was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and also produced by Sir Peter Jackson as a motion captured, animated film. The film has been positively received by critics, gaining a score of 75% certified fresh approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Related Memes Ha Ha Ha, Oh Wow ‘ HA HA HA, Oh wow ’ is an expression that is used to mockingly express disbelief and astonishment, most notably in the form of a two-pane reaction image based on a Tintin comic Destination Moon where Captain Haddock laughs in ridicule about Professor Calculus’ plan to travel to the moon. Search Interest Breaking news on Georges Remi - breakingnews.com Georges Prosper Remi ( French: [ʁəmi]; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé ([ɛʁʒe]), was a Belgian cartoonist.

He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke (1930–40) and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936–57). His works were executed in his distinct ligne claire drawing style. Born to a lower middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, Hergé began his career by contributing illustrations to Scouting magazines, developing his first comic series, The Adventures of Totor, for Le Boy-Scout Belge in 1926. Working for the conservative Catholic newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, he created The Adventures of Tintin in 1929 on the advice of its editor Norbert Wallez. Revolving around the actions of boy reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, the series' early instalments – Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Tintin in the Congo, and Tintin in America – were designed as conservative propaganda for children.

Domestically successful, after serialisation the stories were published in book form, with Hergé continuing the series and also developing both the Quick & Flupke and Jo, Zette and Jocko series for Le Vingtième Siècle. Influenced by his friend Zhang Chongren, from 1934 Hergé placed far greater emphasis on conducting background research for his stories, resulting in increased realism from The Blue Lotus onward. Following the German occupation of Belgium in 1939, Le Vingtième Siècle was closed but Hergé continued his series in Le Soir, a popular newspaper controlled by the Nazi administration. After the Allied liberation of Belgium in 1944, Le Soir was shut down and its staff – including Hergé – accused of having been collaborators. An official investigation was launched, and while no charges were brought against Hergé, in subsequent years he repeatedly faced accusations of having been a traitor and collaborator. With Raymond Leblanc he established Tintin magazine in 1946, through which he serialised new Adventures of Tintin stories.

As the magazine's artistic director, he also oversaw the publication of other successful comics series, such as Edgar P. Jacobs' Blake and Mortimer. In 1950 he established Studios Hergé as a team to aid him in his ongoing projects; prominent staff members Jacques Martin and Bob de Moor greatly contributed to subsequent volumes of The Adventures of Tintin. Amid personal turmoil following the collapse of his first marriage, he produced Tintin in Tibet, his personal favourite of his works. In later years he became less prolific, and unsuccessfully attempted to establish himself as an abstract artist. Hergé's works have been widely acclaimed for their clarity of draughtsmanship and meticulous, well-researched plots. They have been the source of a wide range of adaptations, in theatre, radio, television, cinema, and computer gaming. He remains a strong influence on the comic book medium, particularly in Europe. Widely celebrated in Belgium, a Hergé Museum was established in Louvain-la-Neuve in 2009.

Links Georges Prosper Remi | Article about Georges Prosper Remi by The Free Dictionary Georges Prosper Remi | Article about Georges Prosper Remi by The Free Dictionary (redirected from Georges Prosper Remi) Also found in: Wikipedia . pseud. of Georges Remi, 1907–83, Belgian cartoonist, creator of the cartoon character Tintin. The boy reporter and his faithful fox terrier Milou (Snowy in English translations) first debuted in a French newspaper in 1929. Accompanied by charmingly idiosyncratic sidekicks, they solved mysteries and foiled crime in exotic locations worldwide, appearing in 23 books (1930–76). Artistically, the cartoons depended on the ligne claire style, which eschewed shading, using instead inked lines of uniform weight and soft colors. Hergé's early works tend to have colonialist, racist, and anti-Semitic aspects, and during World War II he worked for the profascist Le Soir newspaper.

Avoiding postwar charges of collaboration, he subsequently created a series of witty, lively, and action-filled adventures that most critics consider his best, e.g., The Calculus Affair (1956), The Red Sea Shark (1958), and The Castafiore Emerald (1963). One of the 20th cent.'s most influential cartoonists, Hergé was also a talented illustrator and graphic designer. The Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, opened in 2009. Bibliography See biographies by P. Assouline (1996, tr. 2009) and B. Peeters (2002, tr. 2011); B. Peeters, Tintin and the World of Hergé (tr. 1992); M. Farr, The Adventures of Hergé, Creator of Tintin (2008); J.-M. Apostolidès, The Metamorphosis of Tintin (tr. 2009); P.

Goddin, The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin (2 vol., 2008–).

Question: First published in 1929, for which character is Belgian George Remi best known?
Answer: TINTIN