Tintin: The Art of Hergé

Bought for an avid Tintin fan. She absolutely loved it.

Perfect accompaniment to the Tintin books, anyone with a love for Tintin's adventures, or with an interest for the artistic process of the auther Hergé will find something of interest in this beautifully presented book.

Bought this as a present for my husband. He loves it as does my grandson. Great pictures and lots of interesting history

Those looking for a nice "companion" to the Tintin books are rather spoiled at present due to the seemingly endless list of publications from Éditions Moulinsart, but this book has a slightly different background, being the English version of a book produced in conjunction with Musée Hergé by Abrams Comic Arts. The book is an incredibly dense volume, rather smaller than it may appear from the product shot, and printed in full colour on glossy paper. The author, Michel Daubert, is actually going virtually head-to-head with the three-volume seres also called The Art of Hergé and written by Philippe Goddin. Which to choose?First impressions of this new volume are mixed. On one hand the illustrations are copious and fascinating, including sketches, draft artwork & photographs; on the other there is comparatively little text, giving the impression of lots of browsing interest but little sustained reading interest. One one hand the book feels quite securely bound and opens to lie reasonably flat; on the other hand, it is just a glued spine, which could result in lost pages long term. On the one hand the design, with its smartly embossed card boards and "rocket-ship" red-and-white chequering, is very attractive; on the other hand that chequering not only sticks the pages together when you first open it (like the gilt edging on a new bible) but has also bled slightly onto the pages. A first chapter about the Musée Hergé itself is a nice bonus to the now familiar story of Georges Remi, but otherwise there is little new.So, what we have here is a nicely-printed and very informative volume that would normally get five stars from me. The problem is that this task has already been done better. The Philippe Goddin volumes are more nicely bound, more nicely set for print, have larger pages with more sustained browsing interest and very much fuller text. Moreover, those volumes are printed on semi-glossed paper that is better for reproduction than the rather shiny paper used in this new volume. Short of Goddin's massive, seven-volume Chronologie d'Une Ouevre (which remains the Tintin collector's true target but which costs big money now ... expect to pay upwards of a thousand pounds) it is the three-volume series that does the job, and Daubert's is only a welcome bonus for those of us who can never have too much of this sort of thing.Don't get me wrong: if you're a Tintin collector then this book fully merits purchase, and it is also rather cheaper at the time of writing than the Goddin set. But I think if all I could afford was one volume of the Goddin versus this one, I think I might still go for that option.

Stunning book. Will take ages to really appreciate every page. So clever.

My son (who is a graphic designer) asked for this for his birthday (I never buy random presents) and he was very pleased, so that’s sorted!!

Fantastic book got it to give as a present.

Husband loved this edition and the history it exposes. He is a mad Tin Tin fan that has more or less everything…except this!