Tintin R. Herz: The Story of the Everlasting Adventurer and His Creator

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Then I read in class five or six. As I walked around the New Market in Dhaka with my mother, I saw a book on the street. A large, glossy comics caught my eye. Going a little further, I noticed that the name of the book is "Tintin on the Moon", written by Herz.

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I fell into light thoughts. Because my race for comics is up to Uncle Chowdhury and Nante-Fonte. I haven't heard Tintin's name yet. But the book was pulling me like a magnet. So I went behind my mother and started whining. Exasperated by my persecution, he negotiated with the shopkeeper and found out that the price of Tintin was seventy-five rupees. Then it's actually a lot of money. The books I bought cost less than half that. But in the end my zeal won. I hugged Tintin with a smile and returned home. I turned the page and immersed myself in a wonderful world of mystery, comedy and adventure. I finished the whole book in Gogras. Although Tintin was not previously known, and the expedition to the moon was the second and final part of his previous story, it was not difficult to find fun in the book.

Starting from that. Tintin's books were bought whenever the opportunity arose. The price, of course, was a major obstacle. Starting from seventy five, as far as I can remember, the price of Tintin was one hundred and thirty to forty rupees. But I never regretted spending so much money. Tintin, among many other things, contributed to the color of his childhood.

The advent of an artist

The French used to tell the story through comic strip or serial drawing in Bande dessinée. One of its pioneers is George Remy. Although the creator of many comic characters, he is best known as the author of Tintin. Her Tintin, written under the pseudonym Herz, is probably one of the most famous comics of all time.

Herz was born on May 22, 1908 in Brussels. Her father is Alexis and her mother's name is Elizabeth. From an early age he had an unquenchable fascination with painting. Surprisingly, however, it is true that what he learned to draw on his own, Hertz did not receive any formal education. In 1920 he was admitted to St. Boniface College. There he became a member of the St. Boniface Boy Scout team in Belgium.

Tintin was later influenced by the ideals and values ​​that the scouts built into him during this time. When his teammates found out about drawing, he did some drawing in the team magazine Jamais Assez / Never Enough. It was from here that Renেনে Weberberg, head of the Brussels Scouts, saw his talent. In 1923, he began drawing for the Scout's national magazine, Lou Boy-Scout Belgium. In 1924, Herze did a funny thing. He reversed his name. George Remy is Remy George. From there he signed his writing with the first letter of each part in the name of R.J. Herz is pronounced in French. His real name is buried under this hertz.

In 1928, Lou Boy-Scout published his first comic strip in Belgium, The Adventures of Totter. He was then nineteen. Until July 1929, Totter proudly roamed the pages of the magazine. Totter is, in a sense, the prototype of Tintin. The young, slightly obese Totter was later refined by Herz to the adventurous Tintin. Like Tintin, Totter's companion was a dog. Herz later admitted to himself that he thought of Tintin as Totter's younger brother. Herz also said at various times that he had in mind the words of his brother, Paul Remy, a Belgian army officer, to enhance Tintin's character.

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