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No other European comic artist has managed to reach such a worldwide audience, except maybe Creator/ReneGoscinny and Creator/AlbertUderzo (''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''), Creator/{{Peyo}} (''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'') and Morris (''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''). And in that regard only ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' has reached a similar international success. Celebrity fans of his work include Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/AndyWarhol, Creator/RoyLichtenstein, UsefulNotes/HaroldMacmillan and even UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, to name a few.
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** Also of note is the fact that Hergé would later look back on "Tintin in Congo" with embarrassment, publicly decrying as it as "bourgeois" and "parental".
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* LesCollaborateurs: The biggest controversy of Hergé's life was the question of whether he could be considered a collaborator or not. During the war, he continued to work for the Nazi-controlled ''Le Soir'', even as it printed anti-Semitic and anti-Allied propaganda (in which he was not involved). After Belgium's liberation, he was denounced as a collaborator by Belgian Resistance groups. A judicial inquiry into his case urged leniency, considering the prosecution of "the ''Tintin'' man" to be a step too far, but did note that Tintin's fame attracted readers to ''Le Soir''. Post-war, he was approached by a former member of the Royalist Resistance (the conservative resistance group) who arranged for Hergé's record to be checked before he could be given a certificate to work again. Again, their verdict was that he was "[[DamningWithFaintPraise a blunderer, not a traitor]]" and he was cleared of any collaboration. But needless to say, the spectre of Nazi collaboration hung over him for the rest of his life.
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* StrawCharacter: Entire debates have been held to find out whether Hergé was right-wing or left-wing in his work. No conclusive answer has been reached.
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* CreatorBacklash: Hergé started quite a few comic strips that he grew tired of after only a few albums. The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom comic "Leo and Lea Visit the Lapinos" wasn't really his thing and he axed it off after only one story. He created ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko because his Catholic editors wanted him to make a comic strip centered around a normal NuclearFamily, but Hergé felt limited by the fact that the children couldn't travel anywhere without their parents coming along with them.
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** Hergé started quite a few comic strips that he grew tired of after only a few albums. The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom comic "Leo and Lea Visit the Lapinos" wasn't really his thing and he axed it off after only one story. He created ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko because his Catholic editors wanted him to make a comic strip centered around a normal NuclearFamily, but Hergé felt limited by the fact that the children couldn't travel anywhere without their parents coming along with them.
** Hergé started quite a few comic strips that he grew tired of after only a few albums. The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom comic "Leo and Lea Visit the Lapinos" wasn't really his thing and he axed it off after only one story. He created ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko because his Catholic editors wanted him to make a comic strip centered around a normal NuclearFamily, but Hergé felt limited by the fact that the children couldn't travel anywhere without their parents coming along with them.
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* OldShame: Some old ComicBook/{{Tintin}} stories, especially [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets"]] and [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo "Tintin in Congo"]] were created under influence of Hergé's magazine publisher, an ultraconservative priest named Norbert Wallez, who wanted Hergé to provide his young readers with educational propaganda warning the youth of the dangers of Soviet communism and praising Belgian colonialism in Congo. Hergé drew these very controversial stories without any documentation at all. He later dismissed these stories as being outdated and naïve. Later on [[Recap/TintinTheShootingStar "The Shooting Star"]] would attract severe criticism for having a Jewish villain and a very anti-Semitic joke about two Jewish moneylenders. Published during [=WW2=] and in a Nazi mouthpiece it has always remained controversial even after Herge excised most of the anti-Semitic elements after the war. Unlike Soviets Herge never disowned it so YMMV if he saw it as an old shame or not.
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He is one of the most influential comic book artists in the world, for he singlehandedly created both the BelgianComics and FrancoBelgianComics scene, not to mention his influence on European comics. Hergé's comics are renowned for their captivating storytelling, meticulous background research, SceneryPorn drawing style, well-paced {{Slapstick}}, [[{{Satire}} satirical depth]], mastery in [[CliffHanger cliff hangers at the end of each page]] and colorful characters. His books are popular across the globe (helped by Tintin's globe-trotting nature) and translated accordingly.
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He is one of the most influential comic book artists in the world, for he singlehandedly created both the BelgianComics and FrancoBelgianComics scene, not to mention his influence on European comics. Hergé's comics are renowned for their captivating storytelling, meticulous background research, SceneryPorn drawing style, well-paced {{Slapstick}}, [[{{Satire}} satirical depth]], mastery in [[CliffHanger cliff hangers {{cliffhanger}}s at the end of each page]] page, and colorful characters. His books are popular across the globe (helped by Tintin's globe-trotting nature) and translated accordingly.
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* CreatorBacklash: Hergé started quite a few comic strips that he grew tired of after only a few albums. The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom comic "Leo and Lea Visit the Lapinos" wasn't really his thing and he axed it off after only one story. He created ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko because his Catholic editors wanted him to make a comic strip centered around a normal NuclearFamily, but Hergé felt limited by the fact that the children couldn't travel anywhere without their parents coming along with them.
** Hergé even resented "Tintin" in the later years of his life. Most of the art work was done by his assistants and even then his production slowed down increasingly.
* CreatorBreakdown: During the early 1950s Hergé felt enormous pressure from working for the "Tintin" magazine and his extramarital affair with his secretary. Even though he had confessed the affair to his wife he still felt very guilty about it and couldn't bring himself to divorce her until much, much later. Apart from that he also felt disillusioned by his treatment and that of many of his colleagues who were convicted of being Nazi collaborators. Halfway the "Prisoners of the Sun", "Land of Black Gold" and "Explorers On The Moon" stories he simply dropped everything and took a vacation without informing anybody. He eventually returned and finished them, but remained restless and plagued by nightmares for several years. Eventually a psychiatrist advised him to quit the comic book industry altogether, but Hergé decided to create an entire story based on his recurring nightmares of white snow, "Tintin in Tibet", that eventually rid him off his anxieties. Still he spent the remaining twenty years of his life with traveling and only made three more official "Tintin" stories in the process.
** Hergé even resented "Tintin" in the later years of his life. Most of the art work was done by his assistants and even then his production slowed down increasingly.
* CreatorBreakdown: During the early 1950s Hergé felt enormous pressure from working for the "Tintin" magazine and his extramarital affair with his secretary. Even though he had confessed the affair to his wife he still felt very guilty about it and couldn't bring himself to divorce her until much, much later. Apart from that he also felt disillusioned by his treatment and that of many of his colleagues who were convicted of being Nazi collaborators. Halfway the "Prisoners of the Sun", "Land of Black Gold" and "Explorers On The Moon" stories he simply dropped everything and took a vacation without informing anybody. He eventually returned and finished them, but remained restless and plagued by nightmares for several years. Eventually a psychiatrist advised him to quit the comic book industry altogether, but Hergé decided to create an entire story based on his recurring nightmares of white snow, "Tintin in Tibet", that eventually rid him off his anxieties. Still he spent the remaining twenty years of his life with traveling and only made three more official "Tintin" stories in the process.
* DiedDuringProduction: Hergé's comics died along with their creator. No continuation has ever been allowed, and his estate have been definitively against such a thing ever happening.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** The travel destinations of "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" and "Tintin in the Congo" were under commission of his Catholic newspaper editor to educate young readers. Hergé never wanted Tintin to visit Russia, nor Congo at all.
** Under pressure of British publishers Hergé was asked to update the fashions and backgrounds in "The Black Island" because they no longer reflected modern Great Britain. They also asked him to change a large chunk of the plot of "Tintin in the Land of the Black Gold" to remove all references to the British colonials in Palestina and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was already brewing in 1940, but too political to sustain after World War Two was over. Surprisingly enough Hergé agreed and made the necessary changes.
** Hergé was also forced to change several Afro-American or black characters in "Tintin in America" and "The Crab With The Golden Claws" into white people under pressure of American publishers.
** Several Tintin stories Hergé made during World War Two are very escapist adventure stories in exotic locations and don't reference the war at all. Understandingly so, because the country was occupied and Hergé couldn't afford to anger the Nazis.
** In "Explorers on the Moon" engineer Frank Wolff [[spoiler: commits suicide by leaving the rocket and throw himself into outer space. His Catholic publishers felt this was way too horrible for a pitiful character like Wolff to end his life and forced Hergé to make Wolff add "only a miracle can save me" in his suicide note, so that the possibility that he would survive could be left open to the imagination of the reader. Hergé felt this was nonsense, but did it anyway to end their complaints.]]
* FollowTheLeader: It's difficult to find European comic strip authors who have never read ComicBook/{{Tintin}} in their lives and aren't in one way or another influenced by his work.
** The travel destinations of "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" and "Tintin in the Congo" were under commission of his Catholic newspaper editor to educate young readers. Hergé never wanted Tintin to visit Russia, nor Congo at all.
** Under pressure of British publishers Hergé was asked to update the fashions and backgrounds in "The Black Island" because they no longer reflected modern Great Britain. They also asked him to change a large chunk of the plot of "Tintin in the Land of the Black Gold" to remove all references to the British colonials in Palestina and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was already brewing in 1940, but too political to sustain after World War Two was over. Surprisingly enough Hergé agreed and made the necessary changes.
** Hergé was also forced to change several Afro-American or black characters in "Tintin in America" and "The Crab With The Golden Claws" into white people under pressure of American publishers.
** Several Tintin stories Hergé made during World War Two are very escapist adventure stories in exotic locations and don't reference the war at all. Understandingly so, because the country was occupied and Hergé couldn't afford to anger the Nazis.
** In "Explorers on the Moon" engineer Frank Wolff [[spoiler: commits suicide by leaving the rocket and throw himself into outer space. His Catholic publishers felt this was way too horrible for a pitiful character like Wolff to end his life and forced Hergé to make Wolff add "only a miracle can save me" in his suicide note, so that the possibility that he would survive could be left open to the imagination of the reader. Hergé felt this was nonsense, but did it anyway to end their complaints.]]
* FollowTheLeader: It's difficult to find European comic strip authors who have never read ComicBook/{{Tintin}} in their lives and aren't in one way or another influenced by his work.
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** Some ''ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke'' gags were never republished because the boys dressed up like Mussolini and Hitler. Back in the 1930s this was innocent fun, but after World War Two... not as such!
** "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" and "Tintin and the Alpha Art" are considered [[CanonDiscontinuity Non Canon]] and were never colorized or redrawn.
** The original version of "Tintin In The Land of The Black Gold" from 1940 was never finished and has never been republished again. Halfway a CliffHanger scene were Tintin is tied up in the desert during a sand storm the Nazis occupied Belgium and Hergé's newspaper "Le Petit Vingtième" was cancelled. When Hergé started working again for "Le Soir" during the occupation he simply started new stories and only took up "Tintin and the Black Gold" until after the war. Yet even then he changed much of the plot.
** Some ''ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke'' gags were never republished because the boys dressed up like Mussolini and Hitler. Back in the 1930s this was innocent fun, but after World War Two... not as such!
** "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" and "Tintin and the Alpha Art" are considered [[CanonDiscontinuity Non Canon]] and were never colorized or redrawn.
** The original version of "Tintin In The Land of The Black Gold" from 1940 was never finished and has never been republished again. Halfway a CliffHanger scene were Tintin is tied up in the desert during a sand storm the Nazis occupied Belgium and Hergé's newspaper "Le Petit Vingtième" was cancelled. When Hergé started working again for "Le Soir" during the occupation he simply started new stories and only took up "Tintin and the Black Gold" until after the war. Yet even then he changed much of the plot.
* OldShame: Some old ComicBook/{{Tintin}} stories, especially [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets"]] and [[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo "Tintin in Congo"]] were created under influence of Hergé's magazine publisher, an ultraconservative priest named Norbert Wallez, who wanted Hergé to provide his young readers with educational propaganda warning the youth of the dangers of Soviet communism and praising Belgian colonialism in Congo. Hergé drew these very controversial stories without any documentation at all. He later dismissed these stories as being outdated and naïve. Later on [[Recap/TintinTheShootingStar "The Shooting Star"]] would attract severe criticism for having a Jewish villain and a very anti-Semitic joke about two Jewish moneylenders. Published during [=WW2=] and in a Nazi mouthpiece it has always remained controversial even after Herge excised most of the anti-Semitic elements after the war. Unlike Soviets Herge never disowned it so YMMV if he saw it as an old shame or not.
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* SherlockHomage: Tintin shares many similarities with Holmes by being an intelligent ChasteHero and BadassBookWorm solving crimes, while Captain Haddock is somewhat of a Watsonian sidekick. Creator/{{Herge}} was a Sherlock Holmes fan too.
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* SherlockHomage: Tintin shares many similarities with Holmes by being an intelligent ChasteHero and BadassBookWorm solving crimes, while Captain Haddock is somewhat of a Watsonian sidekick. Creator/{{Herge}} Hergé was a Sherlock Holmes fan too.
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** Hergé based Tintin's famous quif on his brother Paul.
** Tintin's dog Snowy ("Milou" in the original language) was named after a girlfriend of Hergé.
** Hergés twin brothers used to walk around dressed in bowler hats and canes, much like Thompson and Thomson did.
** Hergé was forced to listen to his aunt singing opera arias in the presence of his parents. Out of this irritation grew the annoying opera singer Bianca Castafiore.
** Tchang Tchong Yen was based on Hergé's real life Chinese friend Chang Chong Ren.
** Hergé based Tintin's famous quif on his brother Paul.
** Tintin's dog Snowy ("Milou" in the original language) was named after a girlfriend of Hergé.
** Hergés twin brothers used to walk around dressed in bowler hats and canes, much like Thompson and Thomson did.
** Hergé was forced to listen to his aunt singing opera arias in the presence of his parents. Out of this irritation grew the annoying opera singer Bianca Castafiore.
** Tchang Tchong Yen was based on Hergé's real life Chinese friend Chang Chong Ren.
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He is one of the most influential comic book artists in the world, for he singlehandedly created both the BelgianComics and FrancoBelgianComics scene, not to mention his influence on European comics. Hergé's comics are renowned for their captivating storytelling, meticulous background research, SceneryPorn drawing style, well-paced {{Slapstick}}, [[{{Satire}} satirical depth]], mastery in [[CliffHanger cliff hangers at the end of each page]] and colorful characters. His books have been translated are popular across the globe (helped by Tintin's globe-trotting nature) and are popular in places you wouldn't even believe: Africa, Peru, China, India,...
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He is one of the most influential comic book artists in the world, especially in Europe, for he singlehandedly created both the BelgianComics and FrancoBelgianComics scene, not to mention his influence on European comics. Hergé's comics are renowned for their captivating storytelling, meticulous background research, SceneryPorn drawing style, well-paced {{Slapstick}}, [[{{Satire}} satirical depth]], mastery in [[CliffHanger cliff hangers at the end of each page]] and colorful characters. His books have been translated across the globe and are popular in places you wouldn't even believe: Africa, Peru, China, India,...
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He is one of the most influential comic book artists in the world, especially in Europe, for he singlehandedly created both the BelgianComics and FrancoBelgianComics scene, not to mention his influence on European comics. Hergé's comics are renowned for their captivating storytelling, meticulous background research, SceneryPorn drawing style, well-paced {{Slapstick}}, [[{{Satire}} satirical depth]], mastery in [[CliffHanger cliff hangers at the end of each page]] and colorful characters. His books have been translated across the globe and are popular in places you wouldn't even believe: Africa, Peru, China, India,...
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Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983), better known by the PenName Hergé, was a UsefulNotes/{{Belgi|um}}an comic strip cartoonist who became internationally famous as the creator of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}.''
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Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - -- 3 March 1983), better known by the PenName Hergé, was a UsefulNotes/{{Belgi|um}}an comic strip cartoonist who became internationally famous as the creator of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}.''
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Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 -- 3 March 1983), better known by the PenName Hergé, was a UsefulNotes/{{Belgi|um}}an comic strip cartoonist who became internationally famous as the creator of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}.''
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Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 -- - 3 March 1983), better known by the PenName Hergé, was a UsefulNotes/{{Belgi|um}}an comic strip cartoonist who became internationally famous as the creator of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}.''
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** Hergé shows up in a very heartwarming cameo in the very beginning of [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin the Spielberg/Jackson film]], as well. As the film opens, Tintin is in a flea market getting a caricature of his face drawn (in the style of the comic, naturally), and when we get a glimpse of the artist, it's Hergé! He remarks that Tintin's face is very familiar, and wonders if he has drawn him before?
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** Hergé shows up in a very heartwarming cameo in the very beginning of [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 the Spielberg/Jackson film]], as well. As the film opens, Tintin is in a flea market getting a caricature of his face drawn (in the style of the comic, naturally), and when we get a glimpse of the artist, it's Hergé! He remarks that Tintin's face is very familiar, and wonders if he has drawn him before?
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No other European comic artist has managed to reach such a worldwide audience, except maybe Creator/ReneGoscinny and Creator/AlbertUderzo (''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''), Creator/{{Peyo}} (''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'') and Morris (''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''). And in that regard only ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' has reached a similar internationally intellectual and commercial success. Celebrity fans of his work include Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/AndyWarhol, Creator/RoyLichtenstein, UsefulNotes/HaroldMacmillan and even UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, to name a few.
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No other European comic artist has managed to reach such a worldwide audience, except maybe Creator/ReneGoscinny and Creator/AlbertUderzo (''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''), Creator/{{Peyo}} (''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'') and Morris (''ComicBook/LuckyLuke''). And in that regard only ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' has reached a similar internationally intellectual and commercial international success. Celebrity fans of his work include Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/AndyWarhol, Creator/RoyLichtenstein, UsefulNotes/HaroldMacmillan and even UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, to name a few.
