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	• Tintin and Alph-Art (The Adventures of Tintin) Herge Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 - 64 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Elmyr de Hory's Treasure

I got into this book when I discovered, thanks to the Glasgow based art critic Francis McKee, that it encompassed Herge's own reflections on the Clifford Irving scandals of the early 1970s: Irving's book on the notorious forger Elmyr de Hory (FAKE!) and his own attempted "Autobiography" of the eccentric and reclusive millionaire Howard Hughes. Then came Orson Welles' film "F for FAKE," which ties in these hoaxes with earlier attempts at fooling a mass public, including his own radio broadcast of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. It is plain that Herge followed this case avidly, and the character of Ramo Nash, the great forger of the book. Instead of Ibiza, the island where de Hory moved in the early 1960s, Herge places Ramo Nash in Ischia. `Oh! A Modigliani (he accidentally touches the canvas; a little paint comes off on his fingers) It's still wet!...And here's a Léger...... a Renoir .... a Picasso ...a Gauguin--a Monet... All fakes! A veritable factory for forging pictures, and perfect imitations, too!'

As a satire of a phony art world where everything is topsy turvy in the name of money, and where the latest thing is but the insane reflection of the earliest thing (Castafiore enthuses about the invention of the wheel, of fire, of the first hard boiled egg), it is a good satire, but for a Tintin book we look on it askance, for the drawings are nothing but place holders and the characters of our heroes seem hardly to have moved on from the "Picaros."

I wonder if one of these kind of scrapbooks could be worked up for every other of the Tintin books and we would then have a perfect knowledge of the way Herge took popular culture and the social scandals of his day and turned them into authentic novels. I hate to think of this as our last glimpse as Tintin, turned into a living statue like a Charles Ray sculpture, and shown in a museum as "Reporter." And no one suspecting he stands dead and agonized within like a sepulcher.

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Facinating.

This is not a Tin Tin comic, this is a view into the way Tin Tin comics were created. Very interesting and exciting to read and look at.

Sincerely, Ira Carmel

My son's favorite TinTin book!

My son has all of the tintin books but says this is his favorite. He's 10 and I figure that does say something!

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Art (or Alph-Art) for Tintinophiles to relish

If you enjoy reading & re-reading Tintin books like other people enjoy looking at fine art or listening to their favorite composer, this book, with it's beautiful layout is for you. In its incomplete state it feels as genuine and enjoyable as any of the existing classics. A must have!

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TinTin in the Land of the Soviets (The Adventures of TinTin)

I am of purchasing the complete set of TinTin books for my son. I was pleased with the ease of ordering and the promptness of my receipt of this book. Further, I found the price to be quite fair - much less than the local bookstores. I will definitely complete the rest of the set in the same way.

Little, Brown is celebrating 100 years of Hergé with 3 titles never before published in the U.S. Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, as they embark on extraordinary adventures spanning historical and political events, fantasy and science-fiction adventures and thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.

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