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“The publication Herge, Tintin and the Americans not only retraces Tintin’s North American journey, but also that of his creator, Herge, since his childhood when he fantasized about the westerns featuring cowboys and Indians … until his encounter with the Sioux in South Dakota in 1971 and his discovery of the artistic avant-garde movement in New York in the same year. It includes other stories about the Wild West which he created, and numerous illustrations which he devoted to the adventurers and to the Indians, and through the roles he gave to Americans in his other stories. As for Tintin, he is presented through three different versions of Tintin in America, including the one which was serialised in the Flemish daily newspaper, Het Laatste Nieuw’s, from October 1941, just before Herge signed a contract with Casterman in April 1942 for the “publication of THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN books, published or yet to be published, of which he is the author, using the pseudonym HERGE”. After having defeated Bolshevism in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the young reporter attacks unbridled capitalism and denounces the plundering of the Indians in the land of Uncle Sam. Nevertheless, the American dream is still present in Tintin’s third very eventful adventure”.
In English. 240 pages 30cm (11.8″) x 21cm (8.3″) Printed in Belgium. Book comes with slip cover. Ships from Sausalito, California.
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