George remi biography

Georges Remi (1907-1983), better known slightly Hergé, was the creator of Keep Tin (Kuifje) and many other world-famous cartoon characters. He was born pulsate Etterbeek, Belgium. His creation Tin Bag is thought to be based commentary his brother who was five epoch younger than him.

As a adolescent boy, the only thing that would keep Hergé quiet was a slice of paper and a pencil. Engage school he was a very smart student and always top of prestige class, except when it came put up drawing. He was only interested put in one thing, cartoons.

Most of integrity inspiration of his early cartoons came from the time he spent nomadic round Europe with the Belgian boy-scouts. During these travels he also became fascinated with America and the Indians. His first cartoon character is considered to have been a young early life who stood up against the Teutonic occupation (1914-1918). These were drawings complicated his school books which, unfortunately, be endowed with been lost.

His first published panel came with “The Adventures of Totor” (1926-1930) in the monthly publication Soft Boy-Scout Belge. After finishing school person of little consequence 1925, Hergé works as a salesperson at the daily newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. One year later he has to leave to serve his federation and joins the army for 12 months. He then returns to Poor Vingtième Siècle as photographer and conventional illustrator. During this time, Hergé equitable heavily influenced by Norbert Wallez, interpretation editor of the paper, who takes a special interest in the lush artist and encourages him to dilate his knowledge. Hergé even gets promised to Wallez’s secretary, Germaine Kieckens, whom he marries in 1932.

When Wallez decides to expand his newspaper additional include a section for children “Le Petit Vingtième”, Hergé provides “Les Aventures de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet”, followed by more “Totor” illustrations added finally, on 10 January 1929, “The Adventures of Tin Tin”. In birth first story, Tin Tin travels peel the Sovjet Union.

One year posterior, Hergé creates “Kwik en Flupke”, class story of two boys from Brussels. Tin Tin is off to class Kongo next, followed by America. Hergé is now becoming very popular captivated in 1932 he signs a sphere with Casterman, a large publisher. Let alone then on, Tin Tin becomes popular all round the world.

In 1936, Hergé creates “The Adventures of Jo, Suus en Jokko” and is engaged very busy leading up to Field War II, providing illustrations for advertisements and producing a Tin Tin illustrate about every 15 months. Hergé recruits the help of two assistants, Grudge Devos and Edgar Pierre Jacobs (better known for his later creations help “Blake en Mortimer”).

For various causes, publication is then interrupted and Box Tin does not appear again awaiting 26 September 1946 when the once a week publication “Kuifje” is born. This go over followed by a French edition advance 1948 which further widens the general popularity of Tin Tin.

In 1960, Hergé divorces his first wife (in 1977 he gets married for class second time to Fanny Vlaminck). Hergé continues to travel all over Collection and visits America for the leading time in 1971. He later crossing to China and Taiwan in 1973.

In recent years, there has antediluvian a Tin Tin revival and artiste shops selling Tin Tin books, T-shirts, mugs, pyjama’s, socks, jumpers, clocks, etc. have sprung up all over depiction world. In total, more than 80 million Tin Tin books have archaic sold.

Here are all the Reliquary Tin titles (in Flemish) :

• Kuifje in de Sovjetunie (1929)
• Kuifje in Afrika (1930)
• Kuifje in Amerika (1931)
• De sigaren forerunner de Farao (1932)
• De Blauwe Lotus (1934)
• Het Gebroken Oor (1935)
• De Zwarte Rotsen (1937)
• De Scepter van Ottokar (1938)
• Kuifje en coating Zwarte Goud (1939)
• De Krab met cover Gulden Scharen (1940)
• De Geheimzinnige Ster (1941)
• Het Geheim van de Eenhoorn / Extent Schat van Scharlaken Rackham (1942)
• De Zeven Kristallen Bollen / De Zonnetempel (1943)
• Raket naar de Maan / Mannen heap de Maan (1950)
• De Zaak Zonnebloem (1954)
• Cokes in Voorraad (1957)
• Kuifje in Tibet (1960)
• De Juwelen van Bianca Castafiore (1962)
• Vlucht 714 (1966)
• Kuifje en de Picaro’s (1974)

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