Studios Hergé
| Comics studio | |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founder | Hergé |
| Defunct | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Belgium |
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| Products | The Adventures of Tintin |
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The Studios Hergé were, between 1950 and 1986, a SARL grouping comics creator Hergé and his collaborators, who assisted him with the creation of The Adventures of Tintin and derived products. Over the years, the studios had between 12 and 50 employees, including some prestigious artists like Jacques Martin, Bob de Moor and Roger Leloup.
Every creation produced by the studios was attributed to Hergé only, except for three albums of Quick & Flupke which are attributed to the Studios on the cover.
In 1987, the Studios were disbanded and transformed into the Hergé Foundation by Fanny Rodwell, Hergé’s widow.
The Studios Hergé were created by Hergé in 1950 to assist him with the creation of The Adventures of Tintin. They permitted him to focus on the creation of new stories by handing over some aspects of the creation, particularly the colouring, which Hergé had never really mastered and which was in the 1940s done by Edgar Pierre Jacobs, and the drawing of decors. Technical elements required a lot of documentation and a specific drawing technique, making such assistance worthwhile. The Studios were created when Hergé worked on Destination Moon, an adventure where technology was omnipresent.
The influence of some studio members on the stories is also present. E.g. Jacques Martin claims to have introduced a number of burlesque gags which don't correspond to Hergés style of humour.
An anecdote well known among tintinophiles is indicative of the atmosphere in the Studios in those years. When Hergé was on a holiday in December 1965, the two main collaborators Bob de Moor and Jacques Martin created a fake page of Tintin, completely in the style of the master, which they sent to the Swiss weekly magazine L'Illustré. It was published there as an extract from the next Tintin adventure.
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