{"id":2776,"date":"2021-08-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:28:57","slug":"book-review-tintin-in-america-herge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Tintin in America, Herg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"511\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_03_America.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_03_America.png 511w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_03_America-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_08_Four-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_08_Four-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_08_Four-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the second Tintin book I got as a child, so I have a certain nostalgic attachment to it. Looking back now it&#8217;s not amongst the best of Tintin\u2019s adventures. But, it being a very early work, that&#8217;s not so surprising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as taking on the mob &#8211; although his main adversary in the adventure ends up being the fictitious Bobby Smiles, the very real Al Capone is the mobster behind the criminal network Tintin is initially pitted against (following on from mention of Al Capone in <em>Tintin in the Congo<\/em>*) &#8211; our young reporter is embroiled in, amongst other things, an oil discovery, leading to a surreal sequence in which a city springs up instantly around him, and numerous other scrapes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0245.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0245.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0245-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tipi to traffic and tower blocks in one day\/five frames.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These allow him to narrowly escape being killed by Indians, lynched by rednecks, turned into dog food, or drowned in the bay by mobsters, and numerous other grisly ends. In this early adventure the serial nature of the original story is more apparent than in later, smoother works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t recommend this as a starting point, but for those who know and love Tintin it&#8217;s an essential part of the saga. There was much better to come, but this story retains a place in my heart and my collection, both for old times\u2019 sake, and for its own early Tintin-era charm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"727\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0243-727x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2927\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0243-727x1024.jpg 727w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0243-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0243.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An alternative edition; beautiful cover!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* These being, as far as I know, the only times Herg\u00e9 refers to a real person in the Tintin books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the second Tintin book I got as a child, so I have a certain nostalgic attachment to it. Looking back now it&#8217;s not amongst the best of Tintin\u2019s adventures. But, it being a very early work, that&#8217;s not so surprising. As well as taking on the mob &#8211; although his main adversary in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Tintin in America, Herg\u00e9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-IM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11373,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/11373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}