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 Tintin arrives in Manila | Adobo Magazine Online | Creativity, Advertising, Design, Media, Digital, Marketing, PR, Asia News Tintin arrives in Manila admin, July 11, 2014 | 5:48pm MANILA – Media and invited guests were on hand for the inauguration of Bonifacio High Street’s newest retail attraction in the form of the Philippines’ first Tintin Shop. Located within Fully Booked, the Tintin Shop is dedicated to books, merchandise and apparel featuring Belgian artist Georges Remi's (better known by his nom de plume of Hergé) boy reporter of the same name. Consisting primarily of 24 graphic novels that have been translated into 70 languages and sold over 200 million copies worldwide, The Adventures of Tintin series tells the story of the titular character and his adventures around the world. Joining Tintin are his faithful dog, Snowy, and a colorful cast of characters including crotchety seafarer Captain Haddock and the bumbling detective duo of Thomson and Thompson.

A perennial favorite in Europe and much of Asia, Tintin has – aside from his titular comic books – been the subject of live action films, an animated television series, and a plethora of merchandise over the years. In 2011, the character received perhaps his biggest global exposure to date with the release of the 3D animated The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn by director Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List). With a sequel on the way from director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) once he completes his duties on The Hobbit, awareness of the character is at an all-time high, and there’s never been a better time to be a fan. Fully Booked went all out to to introduce the Philippine Tintin Shop, staging an event that honored the legendary franchise, with activities, games and activities awaiting visitors. Staff were decked out in full Tintin attire, cheerfully inviting guests to try their hands at crafting an origami Snowy, pore through a Tintin-themed word jumble, or attempt to identify the speakers behind some of the series’ more colorful quotes.

Taking centerstage through the festivities was a buffet of themed treats that could be enjoyed amidst individually-decorated cocktail tables. The main attractions, though, were guided tours through the Tintin Shop itself, wherein the costumed staff introduced guests to the character’s history while walking them through what the store had to offer. Aside from the expected graphic novels (referred to as “albums” in Europe), the Tintin Shop offers everything a fan could want, from the affordable (postcards, posters, keychains and t-shirts) to the sort of high-end collectible that wouldn’t look out of place in an art collection (small-to-medium-sized statues and replicas of iconic props and scenes from the series). “I’m a huge comic book fan and I believe The Adventures of Tintin is the biggest, if not the most important comic book out there,” said Fully Booked managing director Jaime Daez, of the launch. “Hergé really paved the way…if not for Tintin, we might not have all these new, popular comic books we have now.” The Tintin Shop is open during store hours at Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street.

Guided tours are available on July 12 and 13 at 2.30pm. Herge Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'Adventures Of Tintin the Red Sea Sharks' Home > Authors > Herge books Herge Georges Remi (May 23, 1907- March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Herge, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Herge" is the French pronunciation of "R.G.", the reverse of his initials. His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures Of Tintin , which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, which left 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. The notable qualities of the Tintin stories include their vivid humanism, a realistic feel produced by meticulous and wide-ranging research, and Herge's ligne claire drawing style.

Other series that Herge wrote and drew include Jo, Zette and Jocko and Quick & Flupke (Quick et Flupke). Georges Remi was born in 1907 in Etterbeek, in Brussels, Belgium to middle class parents, Alexis and Elisabeth Remi. 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. Except for a few drawing lessons which he would later take at Ecole Saint-Luc, he never had any formal training in the visual arts. In 1920, he began studying in the "college Saint-Boniface", a secondary school where the teachers were catholic priests. Georges joined the Boy Scouts troop of the school, where he was given the totemic name "Renard curieux" (Curious fox). His first drawings were published in Jamais assez, the school's Scout paper, and, from 1923, in Le Boy-Scout Belge, the Scout monthly magazine.

From 1924, he signs his illustrations using the pseudonym "Herge". 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. On finishing school in 1925, Georges worked at the Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siecle. The following year, he published his first cartoon series, The Adventures of Flup, Nenesse, Poussette, and Cochonnet, a strip written by a member of the newspaper's sports staff, but soon became dissatisfied with this series. 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. Tintin In the Land Of the Soviets , by "Herge", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtieme on January 10, 1929, and ran until May 8, 1930. The strip chronicled the adventures of a young reporter named Tintin and his pet foxhound Snowy (Milou) as they journeyed through the Soviet Union.

The character of Tintin was inspired by Georges' brother Paul Remi, an officer in the Belgian army. In January 1930, Herge introduced Cigars Of the Pharaoh . In 1932, he married Germaine Kieckens, the secretary of the director of the Le XXe Siecle. They had no children, and would eventually divorce in 1975. The early Tintin adventures each took about a year to complete, upon which they were released in book form by the Casterman publishing house. Herge would continue revising these stories in subsequent editions, including a later conversion to colour. However, he would also express embarrassment over the ill-informed and prejudiced views expressed in these works. For instance, an infamous scene in Tintin In the Congo had Tintin giving a geography lesson to native students in a missionary school. "My dear friends," exclaimed Tintin, "today I am going to talk to you about your country: Belgium!" In a later edition, the scene was changed into an arithmetic lesson. Herge reached a watershed with 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 University of Leuven, wrote to Herge urging him to be sensitive about what he wrote about China. Herge agreed, and in the spring of 1934 Gosset introduced him to Chang Chong-jen (Chang Chongren), a young sculpture student at the Brussels Academie des Beaux-Arts. The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Chang introduced Herge to Chinese history, culture, and the techniques of Chinese art. As a result of this experience, Herge would strive 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 Chong-Chen" to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese boy who meets and befriends Tintin. In the book, the fictional Chang serves to dispell some of the more outrageous fabrications about Chinese culture. As another result of his friendship with Chang, Herge became increasingly aware of the problems of colonialism, in particular the Japanese Empire's advances into China.

The Blue Lotus carries a bold anti-imperialist message, contrary to the prevailing view in the West, which was sympathetic to Japan and the colonial enterprise. As a result, it drew sharp criticism from various parties, including a protest by Japanese diplomats to the Belgian Foreign Ministry. However, the passage of time has since vindicated Herge's views. At the end of his studies in Brussels, Chang returned home to China, and Herge lost contact with him during the invasion of China by Japan and the subsequent civil war. More than four decades would pass before the two friends would meet again. World War II The Second World War broke out on September 1, 1939 with the Nazi invasion of Poland. Herge was mobilized as a reserve lieutenant, and had to interrupt Tintin's adventures in the middle of Land Of Black Gold . Nevertheless, by the summer of 1940, Belgium had fallen to Germany with the rest of Continental Europe. Le Petit Vingtieme, in which Tintin's adventures had hitherto been published, was shut down by the Nazi occupation.

However, Herge 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. He had to leave The Land of the Black Gold unfinished, due to its anti-fascist overtones, launching instead into The Crab With the Golden Claws , the first of six Tintin stories which he would produce during the war. As the war progressed, two factors arose that led to a revolution in Herge's style. Firstly, paper shortages forced Tintin to be published in a daily three or four-frame strip, rather than two full pages every week which had been the practice on Le Petit Vingtieme. In order to create tension at the end of each strip rather than the end of each page, Herge had to introduce more frequent gags and faster-paced action. Secondly, Herge 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 (Prisoners of the Sun).

In these stories, Herge placed more emphasis on characterization than on the 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 impact of these changes were not lost on the readers; in reprint, these stories have proven to be amongst the most popular. In 1943, Herge met Edgar Pierre Jacobs, another comics artist, whom he hired to help revise the early Tintin albums. Jacob's most significant contribution would be his redrawing of the costumes and backgrounds in the revised edition of The Seven Crystal Balls . Post-war troubles The occupation of Brussels ended on September 3, 1944. Tintin's adventures were interrupted toward the end of The Seven Crystal Balls when the Allied authorities shut down Le Soir. During the chaotic post-occupation period, Herge was arrested four times by different groups.

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 King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a thinly-veiled allegory of the Anschluss, Nazi Germany's takeover of Austria. Nevertheless, like other former employees of the Nazi-controlled press, Herge 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. Tintin's exile ended on September 6, 1946. The publisher and wartime resistance fighter Raymond Leblanc provided the financial support and anti-Nazi credentials to launch Tintin magazine with Herge. 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. It became highly successful, with circulation surpassing 100,000 every week.

Tintin had always been credited as simply "by Herge", without mention of Edgar Pierre Jacobs and Herge's other assistants. As Jacobs' contribution to the production of the strip increased, he began demanding a joint credit. Herge refused and ended their hitherto fruitful collaboration. Jacobs then went on to produce his own comics for Tintin magazine, including the widely-acclaimed Blake and Mortimer. Personal crises The increased demands which Tintin magazine placed on Herge began to take their toll. In 1949, while working on the new version of Destination Moon . In order to lighten Herge's workload, the Herge Studios was set up on April 6, 1950. The studio employed a variety of assistants to help Herge in producing the adventures of Tintin. Foremost amongst these was the artist Bob De Moor, who would collaborate with Herge on the remaining Tintin adventures, filling in details and backgrounds such as the spectacular lunar landscapes in The Red Sea Sharks in 1956. 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 Vlaminck, a young artist who had recently joined the Herge Studios. Furthermore, he was plagued by recurring nightmares filled with whiteness. He consulted a Swiss psychoanalyst, who advised him to give up working on Tintin. Instead, he launched into Tintin In Tibet , possibly the most powerful of the Tintin stories. Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, The Blue Lotus. The adventure allowed Herge 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. Herge came to regard this highly personal and emotionally riveting Tintin adventure as his favorite.

The completion of the story seemed also to signal an end to his problems: he was no longer troubled by nightmares, divorced Germaine in 1975 (they had separated in 1960), and finally married Fanny Vlaminck in 1977. Last years The last three complete Tintin adventures, were produced at a much reduced pace: Tintin and The Picaros only 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 first Tintin movie was made: Tintin and the Golden Fleece, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin. Several Tintin animated cartoons have also been made, beginning with Prisoners Of the Sun in 1969. Tintin's financial success allowed Herge 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 whose culture had long been a source of fascination for him.

In 1973, he visited Taiwan, accepting an invitation offered three decades ago by the Kuomintang government, in appreciation of The Blue Lotus. In a remarkable instance of life mirroring art, Herge managed to resume contact with his old friend Chang Chong-jen, years after Tintin rescued the fictional Chong-chen Chang 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 during the 1970s. He returned to Europe for a reunion with Herge in 1981, and he would settle in Paris in 1985, where he died in 1998. Herge died on March 3, 1983, aged 75, due to complications arising from anemia, which he had suffered from for several years. 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 Herge Studios, replacing it with the Herge Foundation. In 1988, Tintin magazine was discontinued. A cartoon version of Herge makes a number of cameo appearances in Ellipse-Nelvana's The Adventures of Tintin TV cartoon series. Herge books Users say Time Out says Created by Belgian artist Georges Remi (better known as Hergé), The Adventures of Tintin is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. Gabriel Tan, the co-owner of the shop, grew up collecting Batman and Superman comics, but when it came to the beloved reporter-cum-adventurer, he always had difficulty. ‘Tintin was one I could never get my hands on and when I could, it was always so expensive.’ The character is seen in various forms throughout the shop: hardcover books ($29), limited edition resin figurines and box scenes (from $40) and even large standing statues (from $7,000) should you want Captain Haddock to greet guests entering your home.

There are plenty of touristy trinkets, too: book cover postcards go for $2.50 and t-shirts start from $38. A glass cabinet at the back of the shop holds one of the shop owners’ personal collections that are, unfortunately, not for sale. Posted: 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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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. Series on Goodreads: Herge | Article about Herge by The Free Dictionary Herge | Article about Herge by The Free Dictionary 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–). HergÃ© Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline Media Personalities HergÃ© Biography Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name Herge, was a Belgian cartoonist and illustrator, who created the iconic Tintin comic strip. This biography profiles his childhood, life, career, achievements and timeline. Quick Facts Georges Remi, Herge, Georges Prosper Remi, Curious Fox, JÃ©rÃ©mie, JÃ©rÃ©miades Famous as Germaine Kieckens, Fanny Rodwell Image Credit Georges Remi, better known by his pen name Herge, was a Belgian cartoonist and illustrator, who created the iconic Tintin comic strip among many others and is regarded as one of the greatest cartoonists to have ever lived. Remi was a gifted student at school and in fact, he emerged as the top student of his class at school upon graduation but his overriding passion lay in sketching.

He had the habit of sketching the day to day activities of people and it was during his time at school that some of his works were published in a local magazine. He enrolled in art school but quit after a lecture since he found the curriculum boring and started working on his own. Remiâs first job was with the newspaper Le VingtiemeSiecle and it was a few years after joining that newspaper that he created the character Tintin. It was an instant success and although he created plenty of other noted comic strips like âQuick and Flupkeâ, but it was Tintin that became an overwhelming success. Subsequently, Remi went on to establish his own studio and an advertising firm as well but the latter met with moderate success. Childhood & Early Life George Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name Herge, was born on 22 May, 1907 in Etterbeek, Belgium to Alexis Remi and his wife Elisabeth Dafour. His father was employed in a confectionary manufacturing factory while his mother took care of the family as a house wife.

Remi had developed the skill of sketching about things that he saw in his day to day life from an early age. When he studied at the Ixelles Municipal School No. 3, his favourite subject used to be that of sketching the different activities of the German soldiers who had occupied Belgium during the First World War. In 1919, he enrolled at the Place de Londres in Ixelles for his secondary education. In 1920, Remi enrolled at the Saint-Boniface School, a Roman Catholic institution presided over by the archbishop and during his time at the school, he excelled as a student. His drawing was first published for the first time during his years at the Saint-Boniface School. His interests as an artist and cartoonist led him to get admission at the Ecole Saint-Luc art school in 1925 but he decided to leave the course after attending one lecture since he found it boring. He wanted to work for the newspaper âThe Twentieth Centuryâ as a cartoonist but instead he was employed in the subscription division of the newspaper.

After getting bored of the job, he joined the army the following year but could only stay with the army for a year since he did not like the job. Career His first break came in 1926 when he started working on a comic titled âThe Adventures of Totorâ that was published in âLe Boy-Scout Belgeâ. The comic ran for three years but with erratic regularity. In 1927, the newspaper Le VingtiemeSiecle appointed him as a photographer and cartoonist. However, he did continue to work for a host of other publications and one of his most well-known works of the time was published in âThe Childrenâs Cornerâ. Besides, his work was also published in the literary sections of the newspaper. In 1929, he created the character Tintin and the first comic strip titled âTintin in the Land of the Sovietsâ was published serially in the magazine Le Petit Vingtienne. Tintin quickly became a popular comic strip and the following year he created âQuick and Flupkeâ, a comic strip on the activities of two Belgian street children.

Over the next decade, Herge published plenty of new Tintin comic strips as it gained in popularity. After the Germans invaded Belgium in 1939 during the Second World War, Herge went off to Paris but then came back and joined the newspaper Le Soir and continued to publish the Tintin comic strips successfully. He teamed up with cartoonist Edgar P. Jacobs in order to share the workload and five years later the two worked together to create the Tintin comic strip âThe Seven Crystal Ballsâ. Two years earlier he had started with another popular comic strip titled âThe Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jockoâ. Belgium was freed from German occupation on 2 September, 1944 but Herge was accused of being a Nazi and in fact was jailed for a day. However, the charges were dropped the following year and he continued to work on Tintin comic strips that had gained a sizeable readership. Le Soir, his employers had gone out of business by then but he worked in collaboration with his former colleagues. In 1946, he established the Tintin Magazine and the first issue was published in the month of September.

Four years later, he founded the company âHergeâ Studios and the company was engaged in taking care of the myriad projects in which its owner was involved. Over the next decade, Herge continued working on Tintin comic strips while at the same time trying his hand at painting. The tryst with painting however proved to be short-lived. Following the success of the Asterix movies, Herge allowed the production of two movies based on his Tintin comic strips and the first one titled âTintin and the Temple of the Sunâ was released in 1969, while the second one titled âTintin and the Lake of Sharksâ was released three years later. Major Works His most important work in his glittering career as a cartoonist was the creation of âThe Adventures of Tintinâ series of comic strips in 1929. The comic series is without doubt one of the most popular series ever created and it is read all over the world to the present day. Personal Life & Legacy Herge got married to Germaine Kieckens in 1932 but the couple got a divorce 45 years after marriage.

Herge did not have any children since radiation treatment had made him sterile. Herge got married for the second time on 20 May, 1977 to Fanny Vlamynck. After having suffered from bone marrow cancer for four years, Herge died on 3rd March, 1983 in Woluwe-Saint Lambert, Belgium. Translate this page to Spanish, French, Hindi, Portuguese Pictures of HergÃ© Herge Herge 672 Gün 4 Saat 48 dk. önce yayınlandı 1

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