This autumn – a new Tintin film and a new biography of his creator, Hergé!

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You’ll find it hard to ignore the new film from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg this autumn – The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be hitting cinema screens in late October. Here’s the trailer:

Tintin was of course the creation of probably the most famous modern Belgian – the cartoonist known simply as Hergé. Icon are proud to present in October a brand new biography of this master of 20th century comic art from Raphael Taylor. Full of new insights, interviews and research, for anyone who knows a bit about Hergé this will be an unmissable treat. For anyone who knows very little about the man – but has perhaps been intriguided to find out more following the film’s publicity – the book’s accessibility and popular style will make it the perfect introduction. Click on the cover image here to see more: