The sentence means something like ” Believe it if you will but check it out anyway. This is a quote from Ronald Reagan who borrowed it from a Russian proverb uttered by Lenin… What a lineage: a revolutionary and a conservative! This revelation, we owe it to Jerome Dupuis, great reporter at Paris Match.
No doubt in this booklet, Nick Rodwell Will he settle accounts with his longtime detractors who have pursued him for his vindictiveness since in 1991, before marrying Fanny Remi, the second wife ofHergé, he took over the business of Tintin. That was 30 years ago …
Roughly terminating the current license contracts, recovering the audiovisual rights, he met the wrath of criticism while his management of the universe of Hergé, alongside his wife, suffers from no reproach regarding fidelity to the integrity of the work, the defense of Hergé’s artistic heritage (when we compare it to what the heirs of Jacobs and even Franquin…) and the conquest of new audiences multiplying prestigious exhibitions, creating – on the cassette of Fanny whom we voted personality of the year in 2011 – a Hergé Museum which was not only a remarkable architectural gesture, but also a great museum success . To this must be added the realization of a dream unrealized by Hergé: to see Tintin become a world icon thanks to great English-speaking directors like Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.
Who says better ? Nobody.
- Benoît Mouchart, now editorial director of Casterman BD, Benoît Peeters, biographer of Hergé, Numa Sadoul, author of a book of reference interviews with Hergé, and Nick Rodwell in 2014. The question of the day: what future for Tintin ?
It is obviously the personality of Nick Rodwell which clashes: whimsical, sometimes brutal and incoherent, because of a sawtooth relationship with Casterman, he accepts his faults casually. His protests against journalists and “tintinologists” of all stripes regularly hit the headlines, and they do it well. Recently, Le Figaro headline about him: “The man who confined Tintin. “. Ambiance…
Undoubtedly, he does not deserve the indignity reserved for him. « In my book, he declares to Paris-Match, I’m going to explain how a hero is brought to life for decades without the slightest novelty! ” Advocacy pro domo in the form of a balance sheet? Scheduled for 2022, it may answer this nagging question: after Fanny and Nick Rodwell – to whom we wish a long and peaceful life – who will inherit Tintin ? Trust but verify…
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