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On a British newspaper, Tintin would have been fired years ago

A sumptuous volume accompanies the Hergé exhibition at Somerset House (until 31 January 2016) celebrating the intrepid young reporter who never seems to file a story

21 November 2015

9:00 AM

21 November 2015

9:00 AM

Tintin: Hergé’s Masterpiece Pierre Sterckx, translated by Michael Farr

Rizzoli, pp.238, £35, ISBN: 9780789329479

Reading Tintin when I was a child, in Britain in the 1970s, I always assumed Georges Remi’s creation was just a harmless bit of fun. However, when I went to Belgium I discovered, to my amazement, that over there they take him very seriously indeed (this year, a single Tintin picture sold for €2.5

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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £29.75, Tel: 08430 600033. Tintin: Hergé’s Masterpiece is at Somerset House, London (12 November–31 January 2016).

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