Michael Farr is a British expert on the comic series Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...

 and its creator, Hergé

Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also...

. He has written several books on the subject as well as translating several others into English. A former reporter, he has also written about other subjects.

Biography

Michael Farr was born in 1953 in Paris to an Austrian-Czech mother, Hildegarde Karoline Maria Louise Farr (née Pisarowitz) and a British journalist father, Walter George Farr. Educated at Harrow School, and then a history scholar at Trinity College Cambridge, he read Theology as his part one before changing to Fine Art in which he gained an MA. He became a reporter, first for Reuters

Reuters

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and then the Daily Telegraph, travelling around the world as a foreign correspondent. After meeting Hergé, Farr started writing books about Tintin. Farr was the first to gain full access to the files and material Hergé had used in developing the Tintin stories, for his book Tintin: The Complete Companion.

In 2004 Farr was interviewed on BBC

BBC

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 News in a section on the Tintin exhibition at the National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum

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, Greenwich

Greenwich

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. He appeared in 2003 in the film documentary, Tintin and I

Tintin and I

Tintin and I is a 2003 documentary by Anders Høgsbro Østergaard, about Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, and his creation Tintin...

. He now lives in London with his German wife and daughter.

Farr is multilingual in English, German, French and Italian. He wrote a French version of Tintin The Complete Companion at the same time as he wrote the English version.

Books on Tintin

• Tintin, 60 years Of Adventure ISBN 978-2203004054
• Tintin: The Complete Companion ISBN 978-0719555220
• Tintin & Co. ISBN 978-1405232647
• Tintin
• Snowy
• Haddock
• Calculus
• Castafiore
• The Thompsons
• Chang
• Alcazar
• Lampion
• Müller
• Rastapopoulos
• Abdullah
• The Adventures Of Hergé, Creator Of Tintin

Tintin-related books translated into English

• Tintin and the World of Hergé by Benoit Peeters
  Benoît Peeters
  Benoît Peeters is a comics writer, novelist, and critic. He has lived in Belgium since 1978.His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten...
  
  
• Hergé and Tintin, Reporters by Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin is a leading Tintinologist, i.e., an expert on The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. He has written numerous books on the subject, most notably Hergé and Tintin, Reporters. He also helped to keep the television series The Adventures of Tintin more true to the books.-References:...
  
  
• The Adventures of Tintin at Sea by Yves Horeau
• The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin, Vol. I by Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin is a leading Tintinologist, i.e., an expert on The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. He has written numerous books on the subject, most notably Hergé and Tintin, Reporters. He also helped to keep the television series The Adventures of Tintin more true to the books.-References:...
  
  
• The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin, Vol. II by Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin is a leading Tintinologist, i.e., an expert on The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. He has written numerous books on the subject, most notably Hergé and Tintin, Reporters. He also helped to keep the television series The Adventures of Tintin more true to the books.-References:...
  
  
• The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin, Vol. III by Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin
  Philippe Goddin is a leading Tintinologist, i.e., an expert on The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. He has written numerous books on the subject, most notably Hergé and Tintin, Reporters. He also helped to keep the television series The Adventures of Tintin more true to the books.-References:...