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Hergé

Hergé, (alias Georges Prosper Remi) (1907-1983), Belgian cartoonist who in 1929 created Europe's best-known and most beloved cartoon character, Tintin. Hergé began his career at a young age, working, among other things, as an illustrator for the children's section of the Catholic daily Le Vingtième Siècle. It was for this section that Tintin was created, initially as a primitive and rather tendentious series, but already in the 1930s a series in rapid development and soon one of the medium's most surprising examples of clarity, detail, humor and excitement. Hergé's line formed a school, named ligne claire ('the clean line'). His combination of caricatured simplicity, naturalism and realistic background details has not only influenced cartoonists in Europe, but also design and architecture. Hergé also drew other series, including several children's series, but none of them gained any major importance. After Hergé's death, the sketches for the album Tintin et l'Alph-Art (1985, Tintin and the Art of the Alphabet) were published, contrary to his wishes, and his widow has since been responsible for the effective commercial exploitation of his drawings on everything from teacups to silk ties. The Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, is dedicated to the life and work.


January 23rd  2025

 

 
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