{"id":2859,"date":"2021-08-27T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:35:47","slug":"book-review-tintin-in-tibet-herge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Tintin in Tibet, Herg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"513\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_20_Tibet.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3079\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_20_Tibet.png 513w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_20_Tibet-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/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_10_Five-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2860\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_10_Five-20.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_10_Five-20-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was amongst my favourites as a kid, and remains a favourite even now, all these years later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combination of flawless and fantastically evocative art with a really good story, it&#8217;s a winner. Not only is the drawing amongst Herg\u00e9&#8217;s very best, but also the colouring is fabulous; the palettes used are phenomenal: the campfire meal in the evening above the snowline, the muted tones of the ice-cave, or during the snowstorm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haddock&#8217;s on top curmudgeonly form, at his peak as the irascible sidekick, grouchy yet dependable. Tharkey&#8217;s a strong character as well, and by this stage Herge&#8217;s nuanced and sympathetic depictions of various ethnic types have come a long, long way from his <em>In The Congo<\/em> days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The narrative threads of Tintin&#8217;s attachment to Chang and the role of the yeti, whilst non-naturalistic are great storytelling ploys, rich in emotional power. Having learned as an adult of how Herge&#8217;s real-life &#8216;Chang&#8217; relationship didn&#8217;t measure up to this dreamlike idealisation. Well, like the book itself, whilst undoubtedly sentimental, there&#8217;s something very poignant about it all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like all the Tintin stories a lot, but there are a few I really love, and this is one of them, and possibly my very favourite. It&#8217;s beautiful in so many enchanting ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was amongst my favourites as a kid, and remains a favourite even now, all these years later.&nbsp; The combination of flawless and fantastically evocative art with a really good story, it&#8217;s a winner. Not only is the drawing amongst Herg\u00e9&#8217;s very best, but also the colouring is fabulous; the palettes used are phenomenal: the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Tintin in Tibet, 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-K7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11398,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/11398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}