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 Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (The Adventures of Tintin) :: 0316003743
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| Little, Brown is celebrating 100 years of Hergé with 3 titles never before published in the U.S. Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, as they embark on extraordinary adventures spanning historical and political events, fantasy and science-fiction adventures and thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Herge, The Adventures of Tintin, Reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme, in the Land of the Soviets (Last Gasp, 1929)
The very first Tintin strip, brought back into print by Last Gasp a few years ago, is presented here in a wonderfully-put-together oversized book. It will come as a shock to some fans of the series, seeing the original Tintin strips; remember that Herge went back and redrew everything from Tintin in America forward for the Methuen books we're so used to in America, and it all looks like sixties- and seventies-era Tintin these days. Not so Land of the Soviets, which is art-deco-primitive, the characters in some panels almost suggested rather than discrete. The plot, too, is far more obviously that of a serial strip; it is, in fact, almost plotless, simply Tintin and Snowy getting into and out of a series of scrapes. (This feeling is exacerbated by the fact that Land of the Soviets is over twice as long as the standard sixty-four pages Herge settled on later in his career.) Still, if you're a Tintin fan, this is an invaluable document. ***
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Author: Guest
Written by Herge in 1929 (when he was in his early 20s) in episode form for Le Petite Vingtieme, the children's section of a right wing Belgian newspaper, the first volume of Tintin (shown in facsimile form) has some interest mainly for historical reasons. The drawings, for one, are extremely crude. Many eight year olds could have drawn it better. The story's visceral anticommunism is also over the top (though it includes an interesting subplot about the struggle between the soviet regime and the kulaks, which would end tragically in the early 30s in Ukraine with the man made famine or Holodomor). A good scene showing english communists marveled at the achievements of a potemkin soviet factory pokes fun at the naivete of the European communists in regard to the Soviet Union - a naivete that would last decades. The story is generally clumsy, with Tintin having hair rising escapes from sure death in almost every page. This was the only Tintin's story not to be redrawn in colour, and it was out of print for more than 40 years, so clearly Herge was somewhat embarrassed by it. By his next volume, Tintin in Congo, Herge would have developed his trademark clear line style, though the story of that book remained clumsy, not to mention its ardent pro colonialism. I think it was only by his fifth book, The Blue Lotus, that Herge's work rose above the crudity of his early books.
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Author: Guest
Tintin and his dog Snowy are off to report on what life is like in Russia, but there are many who do not want him to report anything, and are out to stop him through trickery and sabotage. Will he be able make it there and back?
"Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" was the first Tintin comic Herge wrote back in 1929, when he was 22 years old. The pictures haven't been redone or coloured, so the style is exactly how it was published in the 1920s, and it's interesting to see what Tintin used to look like, particularly in the very first frames he appears in. This adventure has been pretty hard to find, and it's nice to now have it in English.
It's a pretty fun adventure I thought, and though it's an early one, there's a lot of elements that make up Tintin adventures already in place (a scene where Snowy accidentally gets drunk, an incident with chloroform, a car chase or two, etc). Snowy's character is pretty much as it is in the later stories too, his look and the sort of comments he likes to make.
It's worth a look for Tintin fans, I think.
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Author: Guest
The first adventure of the comic book hero Tintin, written by Belgian Herge, went to press in 1929. The dynamic ever young reporter (who never seems to actually file any stories) heads off for Stalin country in `TinTin in the land of the Soviets'.
"Tintin and his dog Milou [Snowy] board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero."
This volume is not the best in the Tintin series in terms of it's storyline or artwork. It may however be the most historically significant.
Whilst Tintin, a fictitious comic book reporter, was exposing Stalinism in the comic book realm, over in the real world, famous journalists were winning Pulitzer Prizes for painting false benevolent images of this tyrannical regime. One award winning journalist actually landed a plum interview with the Great Helmsman himself in 1929, presumably about the same time as TinTin's train was pulling in to Moscow. Today the Pullitzer Prize based upon that journalist's rose coloured reports of Stalin's Russia are now being challenged posthumously by the Ukrainian community.
Tintin is today about 75 years young. Maybe they should award the Pulitzer to Tintin.
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Author: Guest
What a rip-off....I agree it is the first comic..but sure is not the best value for your money.
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