Hergé

Belgian comic artist who created The Adventures of Tintin.

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Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comic strip artist born on 22 May 1907 in Etterbeek, Brussels.^[1][2] His works are acclaimed for their clarity of draughtsmanship and meticulous plots, and have been adapted into theatre, radio, television, cinema, and computer gaming.^[3] A museum dedicated to Hergé opened in Louvain-la-Neuve in 2009, and his work continues to have a significant impact on comics, especially within Europe.^[3]

Quick Facts

Birth name

Georges Prosper Remi

Born

22 May 1907

Birthplace

Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium

Died

3 March 1983

Place of death

Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium

Notable works

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Jo
Zette and Jocko
Quick & Flupke

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Hergé was born into a lower-middle-class family in Brussels, with a Walloon father and Flemish mother, and learned Dutch with a Marollien accent from his maternal grandmother.^[2] In July 1926 he began producing the comic strip Les Aventures de Totor for Le Boy-Scout Belge.^[4] He developed the character Tintin as a Belgian boy reporter, basing him largely on his earlier character Totor and on his own brother, Paul.^[4] Looking back, Hergé described his Etterbeek upbringing as overwhelmingly dull and lacking color.^[4]

What the cited sources add

The article reports that Hergé's secondary education began at a secular school in Ixelles in 1919, but he was moved to Saint-Boniface School in 1920, where he proved a successful student.^[5]

References

Wikipedia, "Hergé" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Hergé" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Opstal, H. van (1994) Essay RG. Het fenomeen Hergé, pp. 8+10+132-133+195; Goddin, Philippe (2008) Hergé. Levenslijnen, p. 25; Peeters 2012, p. 6; Sterckx 2015, p. 11; Assouline 2009, p. x; Peeters 2012, p. 6 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Hergé" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Assouline 2009, p. x; London Review of Books 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Hergé" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peeters 2012, p. 6 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Hergé" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peeters 2012, p. 6; Assouline 2009, p. x (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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