Kuifje: Droom en werkelijkheid

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De ontstaansgeschiedenis van de avonturen van Kuifje.
Kuifje heeft iets dat tijd en culturen tart. Hoe komt het dat deze reporter, die in 1929 geboren werd uit de fantasie van een bescheiden Belg, rond de eeuwwisseling nog niet van zijn jeugdige frisheid heeft verloren? Dat komt doordat zijn universele aantrekkingskracht, die zich vanuit Brussel uitstrekt tot uithoeken van de wereld waar zelfs deze globetrotter nooit is geweest, stevig verankerd is in de realiteit, waardoor hij mode, tijd en nationaliteit overstijgt.

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Read this and enjoy Tintin even more

In Tintin: The Complete Companion Michael Farr takes the reader on a trip from the early beginnings of Tintin in The Land of the Soviets to the final and unfinished album of the Alpha-Art. With a contagious enthusiasm Farr describes the creation phase of every album and reveals some remarkable trivia you would normally miss while reading Hergés masterpieces.
It is refreshing to see how thoroughly Hergé documented himself before letting Tintin loose on yet another adventure. A lot of this documentation is reproduced in this book together with the final drawings, so you quickly get a feel of professionalism Hergé showed in all of his work. This is clearly the main team of this companion.

While guiding the reader through the complete works, Farr does not neglect to describe some of the personal problems Hergé had to deal with during his career. Although Farr gives most of the time his personal view on topics such as Hergé working for a newspaper led by Nazis during the occupation of Belgium and the break-up of Hergés marriage, the author still gives the readers enough room for their own opinions. The sometimes quite remarkable links between the unpleasant episodes in the life of Hergé and the fantastic adventures Tintin and his elaborate entourage are getting into, can only give the reader more respect for one of the most important European cartoonists of the previous century.