The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear (Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series)

. He is the author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story, the coeditor of a collection of essays on The Secret Garden, and a former Fulbright Fellow at the University of Luxembourg. Joe Sutliff Sanders, Manhattan, Kansas, is associate professor in the children’s literature track of the English D

As a whole, this collection sheds new light on an author whose work emerges here once again not as a critical terminus, but as a source of enduring fascination.”Fabrice Leroy, professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, comics scholar, and author of Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar’s Graphic Novels. The chapters with a thematic approach (appraising the recurrence of motifs ranging from the nothingness prevalent in Tintin in Tibet to the mechanical modernity and narrative acceleration o

The next section considers a subject with which Hergé was himself consumed: the fraught lines between high and low art. While his style popularized what became known as the “clear line” in cartooning, this edited volume shows how his life and art turned out much more complicated than his method.The book opens with Hergé’s aesthetic techniques, including analyses of his efforts to comprehend and represent absence and the rhythm of mundaneness between panels of action. With contributors from five continents drawing on a variety of critical methods, this volume’s range will shape the study of Hergé for many years to come.. When Hergé, born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium, emerged from the controversy surrounding his actions after World War II, his most famous work leapt to international fame and set the standard for European comics. A final section considers how the clear line style has been reinterpreted around the world, from contemporary Francophone writers to a Chinese American cartoonist and on to Turkey, where Tintin has been reinvented into something meaningful to an audience Hergé probably never anticipated.Despite the attention already devoted to Hergé, no multi-author cr