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As part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, British author & illustrator John Fardell will present an hour-long talk on Hergé's work.
It will be held on the 20th August, at 3pm, in Charlotte Square Gardens (tickets £4.50).
Tickets can be booked online, from the Hub in Edinburgh or on site itself during the festival.
For more information see the website.

From the festival website:

[/quote]Join author, illustrator and cartoonist John Fardell as he explores how Belgian genius Hergé combined artistic and narrative techniques to create masterpieces of comic-strip adventure.
He discusses how his lifelong love of the Tintin books influenced his own work, and passes on some of the drawing tips he's absorbed/pinched from Hergé.
An event for young or old, avid Tintinophiles or intrigued newcomers, budding artists and writers or curious readers.[/quote]

That should be worth attending! I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say that John is our very own Balthazar, so you know the quality of the talk will be excellent!

Thanks for flagging this up, Richard. I was going to do so myself, but we (the Book Festival and myself) are still waiting to hear back from the estate/publishers regarding permission for me to show scanned Tintin pages on Powerpoint, and I didn't want to whet anyone's appetite till I was sure we'd got the green light for that. Having first contacted them ages ago, we were hoping to hear back from them before the programme went to press. But the Book Festival's on the case chasing that up, so fingers crossed!