Table of Contents
- 1 How many Tintin volumes are there?
- 2 What other stories did Hergé write other than Tintin?
- 3 When was the last Tintin written?
- 4 How many Tintin books have been sold?
- 5 Was Hergé Catholic?
- 6 Why did Hergé write Tintin?
- 7 Why was Tintin in the Congo banned?
- 8 Where did Hergé live?
- 9 When did Herge write The Adventures of Tintin?
- 10 When did the first Tintin comic book come out?
How many Tintin volumes are there?
Tintin – Official site. There are 24 in all! Tintin and… all the others! Only for fans!
What other stories did Hergé write other than Tintin?
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.
When was the last Tintin written?
Tintin and Alph-Art (French: Tintin et l’alph-art) is the unfinished or incomplete twenty-fourth and final volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Left incomplete on Hergé’s death, the manuscript was posthumously published in 1986.
In what order should I read Tintin books?
A list of The Adventures of Tintin comic books in order
- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930)
- Tintin in the Congo (1931)
- Tintin in America (1932)
- Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934)
- The Blue Lotus (1936)
- The Broken Ear (1937)
- The Black Island (1938)
- King Ottokar’s Sceptre (1939)
Is Herge still alive?
Deceased (1907–1983)
Hergé/Living or Deceased
How many Tintin books have been sold?
Since 1929, more than 270 million copies (figures for 2019) have been sold. The Tintin adventures have been translated in more than 110 languages.
Was Hergé Catholic?
A younger brother, Paul, was born five years after Hergé. Like most Belgians, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though they were not particularly devout.
Why did Hergé write Tintin?
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.
How many pages are in the book Tintin?
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780316359405 |
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Pages: | 192 |
Sales rank: | 61,640 |
Product dimensions: | 9.32(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.59(d) |
Age Range: | 8 – 18 Years |
Is Tintin a real name?
The real name of Tintin’s creator is Georges Remi. By reversing his initials to R.G. he created his pen name: Hergé. Tintin explores the moon in 1953, i.e. 16 years before Neil Armstrong.
Why was Tintin in the Congo banned?
It said it did not believe the 1946 edition of Tintin in the Congo was intended to incite racial hatred. Congolese campaigner Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo launched legal proceedings in 2007 to get the book banned, saying its portrayal of Africans was racist.
Where did Hergé live?
The new book by Dominique Maricq, ‘Hergé côté jardin’, follows Tintin and Hergé’s footsteps around the countryside surrounding Marlinspike Hall, in reality the region of Walloon Brabant in Belgium, where Hergé lived for many years.
When did Herge write The Adventures of Tintin?
“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.
When did Georges Remi write the first Tintin book?
This is a list of all the Tintin books written by Herge, the pen name of Georges Remi. They were originally published in Belgium between the years of 1929 and 1983, when the unfinished book Tintin and Alph-Art was published. How many have you read?
What are the three official books of Tintin?
Outside the official canon: Tintin film books 1 Tintin and the Golden Fleece 2 Tintin and the Blue Oranges 3 Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
When did the first Tintin comic book come out?
In December 1999, a pirate comic book Tintin in Thailand came into circulation. The book, illustrated by Thai artists, presented Tintin, Haddock and Calculus on a sex holiday to Bangkok, with numerous allusions to the characters being unhappy with their treatment by the Hergé Foundation.