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| Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, at work in 1975 on his final book of the “Tintin” series. Photo: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma, via Corbis |
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Georges Remi, the Belgian cartoonist and author whose creation Tin-Tin won the admiration of Brigitte Bardot, Charles De Gaulle and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, died Thursday night of leukemia. He was 75.
Officials at the Saint Luc hospital in Brussels said Remi had been admitted a week ago for treatment of the disease.
Known by his pen-name Herge, Remi's books on the adventures of the globe-trotting boy reporter Tin-Tin were translated into 32 languages and distributed around the world.
Born in Brussels on May 22, 1907, Remi developed his talent as a cartoonist and illustrator as a student, winning fame with the publication in 1929 of Tin-Tin's adventures in the Soviet Union.
'Tin-Tin, like me, was a reporter who never wrote a single article,' Remi once said.
'There's an element of protest in Tin-Tin which I wasn't at all aware of when I started. Tin-Tin is an adolescent fighting the adult establishment -- gun runners, prevaricating politicians, drugs ... the person I should have liked to have been, the hero,' Remi said.
With his upturned curl of orange hair and a blank stare, Tin-Tin captured the imagination of such diverse fans as Miss Bardot and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Even the late General de Gaulle shed his Olympian reserve once with the remark, 'my only rival on the international scene is Tin-Tin.'
Remi's pen-name Hergé is taken from his initials. He published 23 Tin-Tin adventures up to 1976.
First published at United Press International, (UPI) March 4, 1983
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