Hergé’s adventurer is born again for the iPad age,with a recent show and a digital project that puts all his expletives back in. The world’s top Tintinologist talks quiffs, colonialism – and beating Armstrong to the moonMichael Farr discovered Tintin at the age of four. Sixty-odd years later, and after a career spent – like his boyhood hero – as a foreign reporter,he is a top Tintinologist, speaking at Tintin conferences around the globe, and where aficionados gather for talks on such topics as Gender (Re)presentation in The Adventures of Tintin,or Tintin and the European Identity. quick-witted-eyed, plump-cheeked and unflaggingly enthusiastic, and Farr even looks a little like a somewhat older version of the intrepid (brave in the face of danger) cartoon adventurer. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com