Tintin. The Complete Companion: The Complete Guide to Tintin's World (The Adventures of Tintin) - Tapa dura

."..an excellent introduction.... Accessible and engaging..." -- The School Library Journal (on Farr's Adventures of Herge) .".. stunning collection of artifacts, including pre-Tintin drawings, Tintin sketches, newspaper clippings, magazine and book covers." -- The New York Times (on Farr's Adventures of Herge) .".. a delightful introduction to the world of Tintin, providing extended profiles of the series' colorful cast of recurring characters while exploring Herg 's sources for each of them." -- Publishers Weekly (on Farr's Tintin & Co.)

Join the world’s most famous travelling reporter in the complete guide to the world of Tintin.The perfect gift for fans of the beloved graphic novel series, old and new.

Written by ace Tintinologist Michael Farr, this book is the complete guide to The Adventures of Tintin, including fascinating background information on how the books were created. Learn how Tintin was based on Herge’s brothe, and Captain Haddock on himself! With fascinating detail Michael Farr also recounts how real people came to be immortalised in the Tintin books.

Lavishly illustrated with photographs, illustrations, sketches and maps, this is the fascinating story of the evolution of a genuine comic book classic. Ideal for fans aged 8 and up.

Hergé (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907. Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series, which is now considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, comics series of all time. 

Have you collected all 24 graphic novel adventures?

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Tintin in the Congo

Tintin in America

Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh

Tintin: The Blue Lotus

Tintin: The Broken Ear

Tintin: The Black Island

Tintin: King Ottakar’s Sceptre

Tintin: The Crab with the Golden Claws

Tintin: The Shooting Star

Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Tintin: Red Rackham’s Treasure

Tintin: The Seven Crystal Balls

Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun

Tintin: Land of Black Gold

Tintin: Destination Moon

Tintin: Explorers of the Moon

Tintin: The Calculus Affair

Tintin: The Red Sea Sharks

Tintin in Tibet

Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald

Tintin: Flight 714 to Sydney

The Adventures of Tintin and the Picaros

Tintin and Alph-Art