The comics of Hergé : when the lines are not so clear

The comics of Hergé : when the lines are not so clear / edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders.

After five decades of critical discussions on Hergé and Tintin, is there anything left to say on the most famous French-language comics creator and his acclaimed body of work? The Comics of Hergé answers the challenge of venturing new interpretations of a classic yet endlessly inspiring corpus. Draw...

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Other Authors: Sanders, Joe Sutliff (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Series:Critical approaches to comics artists.
Subjects:
Hergé, > 1907-1983 > Criticism and interpretation.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Tintin chronology
  • Introduction / Joe Sutliff Sanders
  • SECTION ONE: ABSENCE AND PRESENCE
  • Signifying nothing: Tintin in Tibet / Jim Casey
  • Actions, disjunctions, and passions in graphic narratives: narrative virtualities in The adventures of Tinin / Benjamim Picado and Jonathas Miranda de Araujo
  • The shape of the jewel: polyphony, polyrhythms, and musical structure in The Castafiore emerald / Andrei Molotiu
  • Alph-Art, B-movies, cast corpses: death-by-sculpture and Hergé's middle ground / Vanessa Meikle Schulman
  • SECTION TWO: CHANGES IN AND AFTER HERGE
  • Continuing clear line, 1983-2013 / Matthew Screech
  • Modernizing Tintin: from myth to new stylizations / Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey
  • The flying dialogues: Hergé's use of aviation from Quick & Flupke to Tintin / Guillaume de Syon
  • Hergé's occupations: how the creator of Tintin made a deal with the devil and became a better cartoonist / Joe Sutliff Sanders
  • SECTION THREE: TALKING BACK TO HERGE
  • Violence and the tableau vivant effect in the clear line comics of Hergé and Gene Luen Yang / Gwen Athene Tarbox
  • An unspeakable filiation: Spirou and the three Unicorns / Annick Pellegrin
  • Tintin's journey in Turkey / Kenan Kocak.

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