Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. His books include 'Reading Greek Tragedy', now in its eighth edition. He publishes regularly in the TLS and the London Review of Books, and is in great demand as a lecturer on Classics the world over.Michael Farr has written, edited and translated numerous books on Tintin. He was, for years, a reporter like Tintin, and in the same countries - or at least their real counterparts. He knew Herg� and is the leading British Tintinologist. His bestselling TINTIN: THE COMPLETE COMPANION was published in 2001. He was a consultant on the Stephen Spielberg film.
'Herg' was born Georges Remi on 22 May, 1907 in Etterbeek, a suburb of Brussels, in Belgium. After leaving school, he worked for the daily newspaper, Le XXe Sicle (The 20th Century). He was responsibe the for the section of the newspaper designed for children. Tintin, the main character in his works, was introduced on January 10, 1929 in a story entitled 'Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.' Each story ran as a comic strip in the newspaper and then was published as a book. Some of these books were adapted for the small screen including The Crab With The Golden Claws, Star of Mystery, Red Rakham's Treasure, Black Island, Objective Moon and The Calculus Affair. French TV produced longer… versions of twenty of the books in 1992, which have been broadcast in over fifty countries. On 3 March, 1983, he died in Brussels. At the time of his death, he was working on Tintin and the Alpha-Art, which was published in an unfinished form.