SUMMARY: -
The story tells of young
Belgian reporter Tintinand his
dog Snowy who are sent to
the Belgian Congo to report on
event in the country. Amid
various encounters with the
native Congolese people and
wild animals, Tintinunearths
a criminal diamond smuggling
operation run by the American
gangster AI Capone.
ART STYLE:-
The comic page contains
lot of sections that narrate
each and every
scene/action, the art that
Hergeinvented is “Linge
Clarie”. This type of comic
art style contained flat
colours which are strong
and contrasting and
various line widths are
being used and there are no
use of haching
SUMMARY:-
In this strip M’Hatuvutribe is
trying to invade Babaorumtribe.
Tintinbeing a kind person trying
to solve this problem of
Babaorum.
Here M’Hatuvuusing both stone
age and modern weapon on
Tintinbut they missing every
chances.
ANALYSIS OF PANNELS
In this panel chief of M’Hatuvu
is feeling proud of his army
and referred them as
“European army” and said
that try can easily defeat the
babaorumwhich depicts that
European colonial culture is
strongest
Here a member of
Babaorumtribe asking
help from Tintininstead
of announcing this
situation to the chief
which shows white man
supremacy.
Here we can see that most of
the speechboxeswere above
the character and it’s
between characters and
background it is because the
author wants the focus on
the character which is used
more to depict the pannel
Here the panel
is depicted
without any
speechboxstill
it coveys the
situation
Here Herge
represented
this plot armor
in a logical gag
method due to
which Tintinis
safe
Here there is a time
gap in the gutter
space where Tintin
suddenly started
dodging the arrows
Hergejumbled the
word in this
speechboxto show
illiteracy of
Congolese people
and here Tintin
called as “Big Juju”
which means sprit
In this panel
hergerepresented
sound in a
graphical manner
and gave a small
suspense of the
situation.
Here the white
supremacy represented
by showing Tintinas a
strong target for which
the chief had to use his
artillery the defeat him.
AUTHOR:-
George Prosper Remi aka
Hergewas born on may 22
nd
1907 at EtterbeekBelgium.
He was fan of famed
cartoonist Windsor McCay’s
work specifically Gertie the
dinosaur. Herge’sfirst work
was “the Adventure of Totor”
who was a boy scout, he
rebooted this character for
the catholic newspaper
called “Le Petit Vingtieme”
Hergebecame
dissatisfied in a
collaborative aspect of
the job and decided to
create his own
character and this
character was “Tintin”
a Belgian boy Repoter
who solves crime and
has adventure in far
off lands.