Organised jointly with the Círculo de Bellas Artes as part of the exhibition Hergé. The Exhibition, the Instituto Francés of Madrid presents in its theatre next Wednesday at 19:00 the meeting Hergé and the art of the Comic Strip, which will be attended by Benoît Peeters and Luis Alberto de Cuenca.
The event will be free of charge, with advance booking required at this link, and will be held in French and Spanish with simultaneous translation.
Considered as the father of European comics, the creative genius of “Tintin”, Hergé, opened some decisive paths for the 9th art and his influence is still visible in the world of contemporary comics. He is not only the master of the Clear Line and the father of Tintin and Snowy, but also a multi-faceted artist: graphic designer, publicist, scriptwriter and painter.
Benoît Peeters met Hergé for the first time in 1977, in Brussels, during an interview with Patrice Hamel for the magazine Minuit. In addition to his thesis on the Bijoux de la Castafiore (which was published, reworked, in book form in 1984), he published several small studies on Tintin. When Carlsen and Casterman planned to produce a monograph on Hergé, it was the creator of Tintin himself who suggested to the publishers that they entrust the writing of the book to Peeters. Since 2015, he has been one of the three authors of the post-faces of the collection Hergé, le feuilleton intégral, published jointly by Moulinsart and Casterman.
