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Tintin: Nick Rodwell will publish a book to answer the controversies over his management of Hergé's rights

2021-01-16T10:55:43.627Z


INTERVIEW - The designer's rights manager has decided to write a book to justify his editorial strategy for thirty years. Tintin specialist Jacques Langlois analyzes the importance of this announcement.


The announcement had the effect of a small bomb in the Landerneau des Tintinophiles.

In

Paris Match

, written by Jérôme Dupuis, Nick Rodwell, director of the Moulinsart company and manager of Hergé's rights for thirty years, announced that he had decided to write a book, to be published in 2022 and provisionally entitled

Trust but verify

, in which he intends to

"tell how we bring a hero to life for decades without the slightest novelty."

Administrator of the association "Les Amis d'Hergé", Jacques Langlois is a tintinophile from the start.

As early as 1960, he came into contact with Hergé.

A faithful correspondence was engaged between them until the death of the designer in March 1983. Author of the recent book

A little praise for Tintin

, Langlois is able to analyze the ins and outs of such an announcement.

He agreed to answer the

Figaro's

questions

.

Read also: Who is Nick Rodwell, the man who confined Tintin?

LE FIGARO .

- Were you surprised to learn that Nick Rodwell was going to publish a book next year?

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Source: lefigaro

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