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Look past the ‘clear line’ — and discover one of comics’ greatest masters. The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear, edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders and published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2016, gathers leading scholars to explore the complexities of Hergé — Georges Remi (1907–1983), the creator of Tintin and pioneer of the ligne claire style.
The essays in this volume, part of the Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists, examine Hergé from every angle: the tension between high art and popular culture, the relationship between his biography and his work, psychoanalytic readings of his stories, questions of gender and representation, and the political context of his career — including the controversial years of the Nazi occupation of Belgium.
Accessible yet rigorous, this collection is essential reading for comics scholars, Tintin fans, and anyone interested in how a children’s cartoonist became a subject of serious academic study — proof of how much remains to be discovered in Hergé’s seemingly simple panels.
The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear, edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), gathers leading scholars to look past the ‘clear line’ and explore the complexities of one of comics’ greatest masters. Hergé — Georges Remi (1907–1983) — created Tintin and pioneered the ligne claire style, whose clean, precise drawings shaped generations of cartoonists worldwide.
The essays in this volume, part of the Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists, examine Hergé from every angle: the tension between high art and popular culture, the relationship between his biography and his work, psychoanalytic readings of his stories, questions of gender and representation, and the political context of his career — including the controversial years of the Nazi occupation of Belgium.
Rather than settling old debates, the contributors show how much remains to be discovered in Hergé’s seemingly simple panels. Accessible yet rigorous, this collection is essential reading for comics scholars, Tintin fans, and anyone interested in how a children’s cartoonist became a subject of serious academic study.
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