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Hergé, Tintin et les Américains - Monographie de Philippe Goddin
French language version
case bound edition in carton protective cover, 240 pp in colour, 303x220 mm (width x length), published 2020
The publication Hergé, Tintin and the Americans not only retraces Tintin's North American journey, but also that of his creator, Hergé, since his childhood when he fantasised about the westerns featuring cowboys and Indians... up to his encouter with the Sioux in South Dakota in 1971 and his discovery of the artistic avant-garde movement in New York in the same year. It includes other stories about the Wild West, which he created, and numerous illustrations which he devoted to the adventurers an to the Indians, and through the roles he gave to the Americans in his other stories.
As for Tintin, he is presented through three different verions of Tintin in America, inclusiding the one which was serialised in the Flemish daily newspaper, Het Laatste Nieuws, from October 1941, just before Hergé signed a contract with Casterman in April 1942 for the "publication of The Adventures of Tintin books [...] published or yet to be published, of which he is the author, using the pseudonym HERGÉ".
After having defeated Bolshevism in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the young reporter attacks unbridled capitalism and denounces the plundering of the Redskins in the land of Uncle Sam. Nevertheless, the American dream is still present in Tintin's third very eventful adventure.
