Go, Read: Tom McCarthy on Tintin

"To confuse comics with literature would be a mistake, and even more so with the groundbreaking work of Herge, in which, as Numa Sadoul points out in Entretiens avec Herge (Encounters with Herge), the set of interviews he conducted with Tintin's creator in the mid-70s, the medium "takes up an original and autonomous ground between drawing and writing". Packed with significance, intensely associative, overwhelmingly suggestive, it still occupies a space below the radar of literature proper. Which leads us to the second paradox: this below-radar altitude, this blind spot, this mute pocket is, as we already know, the zone where the real action takes place." -- excerpt from the excerpt from Tintin and the Secret of Literature run by the Guardian on Saturday.
 
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