The Complete Guide to Asterix (The Adventures of Asterix and Obelix)

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Everything You wanted to know about Asterix and more!.......1998-08-13

Find out some of the ingredieants for Getafix's magic potion. Indepth discushions with Uderzo about the creation of Asterix (Did you know he has a soft spot for chickens?) And finaly translate all those laten quotes that have been eluding you for years. This is the best Asterix book you could pick up!

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Ronald Searle in Le Monde
Ronald Searle
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226744086

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Ronald Searle, a master of modern caricature, has tremendously influenced the work of other artists. His biting, darkly satirical wit and unique graphic style have also earned him admirers from far and wide; Groucho Marx called him a genius, and John Lennon named him as one of two people (along with Lewis Carroll) who most affected his life.
Since 1995, Searle has plied his sardonic trade on the coveted op-ed pages of the French daily newspaper Le Monde. This book presents more than a hundred of the best of these cartoons, ranging across politics, the new Europe, the nature of the contemporary economy, social games, and various "angels," both benign and mischievous. Whether skewering the greed of the rich with images of men in suits padding each other's pockets with cash or conducting business under the table, or making a poignant comment about how much harder peace has to work than war to stay in the same place, Searle displays the same pungent, incisive, yet infinitely humane wit. The deceptive simplicity of his lines and shadings combine with meticulously observed details of dress, background, and facial expression to produce arresting images that convey his messages powerfully and beautifully.

By turns delightful, amusing, and disturbing, but always deeply thought provoking, Searle's work reaches well beyond the specific occasion that inspired a given cartoon to illuminate key aspects of public life in the West at the end of the millennium. This book contains twenty-five illustrations not found in the French edition, together with a new preface for English-speaking readers written by Searle himself.

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The most wonderful collection of illustrations by Sempe.

Displays of Affection
Jean-Jacques Sempe
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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With pen and ink, and with gentle understanding, France's most acclaimed cartoonist explores the question of the delicate balance. Displays of Affection pictures love in cozy parlors, on a starry night, in chic apartments, on a windswept beach, on a wobbly bicycle. Close to 100 drawings and captions evoke tenderness, melancholy, skirmish, and triumph. "Vulnerability is la condition humaine," Sempe told The New York Times. In this funny and moving book, his lovers and couples prove it every time. Sempe's people live in a world that is not necessarily easy for lovers. (After all, out of 2000 possible lovers, how do you find the ideal one?) But as they struggle to find each other nevertheless, they often discover, like the couple dancing alone to the strains of a full-piece orchestra in their own backyard, that "things seem to sort themselves out."

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The most wonderful collection of illustrations by Sempe........1999-09-17

The most wonderful collection fo illustrations by Sempe

The Oxford French Cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder

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The best
Variety ! A good MORALE LIFTER for intermediate/advanced.

The Oxford French Cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198602677

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[SERIES COPY:] This informative, colorful, and fun-to-use series of guides is perfect for anyone who wants to learn a second language quickly and easily. Each volume employs the amusing and always true-to-life cartoon strips of Claire Bretecher--an artist renowned in Europe for her witty and
controversial cartoons--to not simply explain but illustrate the words and wording of a given foreign language in its common, everyday use.

While there are other cartoon dictionaries on the market, most of them provide only single cartoons. This attractive series, on the other hand, provides whole strips which tell a story and effectively bring context and other memorable features to one's learning. And only this series offers cartoons
done in full color, and written by a popular cartoonist. These vocabulary-builders are the perfect starting place for people who want to begin, or else strengthen, their acquisition of French, German, or Spanish.

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The best.......2003-07-18

I cant say enough about this book. It has helped me so much in building a french vocabulary. However my only advice is, that this is definitely not for a beginner, but for someone who has had years of instructions and is frustrated and wants to learn the spoken words. Teachers might hate this book, but I love it.

Variety ! A good MORALE LIFTER for intermediate/advanced........2000-10-07

Here is a collection of about thirty full-page cartoons. Each cartoon has a title: La Vie, L'Amitie, Le Cerveau, etc. The drawings are reminiscent of the French media (Paris Match?). Please examine the cover photo that AMAZON offers: it shows a good sample of these pictures.

The book uses a two-page format. The left page has the cartoon; the right page has three "helps" for the student.

1. Understanding the Text: a simple vocabulary list of the words.

2. Key Structures: translates "hard" expressions. Eg.: Ce que tu es bete! You sure can be dumb!

3. A supplemental word/expression list related to the cartoon's theme. These words/expressions are not actually in the text.

At the end of the book, there is a helpful glossary and a perfectly usless chart of fifty verbs.

CHEERS: Cartoons will add variety to your studies. Some of the drawings are funny: most are not. The vocabulary is a challenge to intermediate/advanced students. "Real life" conversational expressions are often used: (eg. "des tas de" and "flics").

JEERS: The cartoons could be a lot funnier! There is no pronunciation guide. A table of phonetic symbols is presented on page 7, but it's never used elsewhere in the book. Warning: there's nothing to inform students that such constructions as "Tu es" would normally be pronounced "Tay". (It's often written as "T'es", but this book sticks with "Tu es".)

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Useful, but not the Best.......2005-09-15

Teaching with cartoons, what a fine idea! Why are so many books so poorly executed.

My complaints here are small. I need my reading glasses for the small typeface, the cartoons are not from real comic strips (they are drawn just for this book), I find it a bit basic. Still, these are nit-picks, in general I like it. It builds thematic lexical sets.

The best cartoon book for Spanish students remains "Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish : Featuring the #1 Comic Strip "For Better or For Worse"

Fill your head with boatloads of words in context..........2004-10-01

Nothing beats a good context for picking up foreign language vocabulary. Many books simply push lists of words into the reader's head and hope that something catches to make the words stick. Unfortunately, rote memorization unaccompanied by usage typically results in horrificly low retention rates. This book has none zip nada of those problems. True, it includes lists of vocabulary words and lots of them. But the comics set it apart from other books that claim to expand one's vocabulary. Instead of sitting on a neuron impatiently waiting for an opportunity for use, the comics give the words a context. The word lists then becomes more of a map to help navigate the comics, and retention skyrockets.

The comics focus more on European Spanish (or Español Iberico) than American Spanish. Nonetheless, the word and phrase lists also include references and idioms unique to Latin American Spanish. Words and phrases not used in Latin American Spanish get an asterisk next to them, so it's easy to tell them apart. Regardless, this book will probably better suit those wanting to speak Spanish in Spain. But anyone learning Spanish can benefit greatly from it.

Probably the best way to get the most out of this book is to read all of the vocabulary for a particular comic first, then read that same comic a few times through to cement the words in memory. Repetition and context will fuel retention, and returning to previously read comics will yield surprising results. Some words will stick like paste on a first reading; others may take a few times through. Nonetheless, many rewards await those who read through the entire book more than a few times.

Lastly, this is not a beginner's Spanish book. It assumes much foreknowledge from the reader. Basic grammar and very basic vocabulary are not covered in any depth. Probably the best time to go through this book would be after completing a basic Spanish class or book (i.e., know more than just present indicative verb conjugation, sentence structure, same basic vocabulary, pronouns, etc.). The level of learning can best be described as beginner intermediate. Those in the advanced level will likely breeze through it. So get going, read some comics, and learn a load of Spanish words.

Vocabulary builder is great.......2001-02-13

I learned everyday English by reading a lot of comics and I always wanted a comic strip in Spanish. This book is exactly that and has a vocab reference for each strip. Great way to learn!

Great supplement for learning Spanish!.......2000-07-28

From the perspective of a Spanish teacher, this is a wonderful book to help build your Spanish vocabulary and comprehension.

The way the it's set up is: On one page there is a FULL page cartoon strip in color. There is a lot of dialogue, idioms, and basic vocabulary. One the opposite page is a list of vocabulary found in the comic strip in Spanish and English, divided into categories. The book is organized by cartoon title and topic. Some topics include: food & drink, money, travelling, etc. There are 30 cartoons in total, a well-organized table of contents, a glossary and a verb conjugation help section.

I definitely think this would be a great way to expand your knowledge (or your students' knowledge) of Spanish in a very interesting and humorous context.

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An overview of the life of Herge, Tintin's creator.

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A mixed bag.......2007-06-11

A strange book! The information and illustrations in it is great, but there are curious qualities to it. The writer is a native speaker of English, but from errors in sentence structure and some obvious mistakes in word usage, this publication was translated from French. There are curious recurring preoccupations and repetitions, almost suggesting that each chapter appeared separately, possibly in a magazine. For example, the comparison of Herge's work and that of his studio with that of Raphael and his assistant Giulio Romano occurs at least three times! The reproduction of pictorial archival material from Herge's collections and elsewhere alongside panels from the books is fascinating. But Farr often dedicates a lot of space to discussion of the source of a particular image or set of images -- and then there's no illustration. At other times there are illustrations that are scarcely mentioned in the text.

Still, we have to be grateful for all the data given here. I remember an old Tibetan lama looking at "Tintin in Tibet" with my children, and pointing out corners he knew in the panoramic picture of Katmandu, being puzzled by the Abominable Snowman, and laughing at the pictures showing levitation. In the '60's I camped all through through Yugoslavia; my young kids were reading "King Ottakar's Scepter" and constantly pointed out details in the landscape that matched the book. Herge did his homework, and it's great to have the sources laid out.

Despite its flaws, this book is a keeper.

Thoroughly researched, not the best of writers.......2007-05-15

This book has used the extensive archive of Herge, to which the author was granted unlimited access. The book is certainly enlightening and offers great insight into Herge's mind. The author rightly presents each Tintin adventure in its proper historical context, and exposes fascinating parallels of the adventures with Herge's own life. Most of the illustrations are juxtapositions of Tintin frames and concepts against the source material from Herge's archive of newspaper clips and books. Some comparisons are very convincing. Some comparisons are stretched, for example, the alleged inspiration for the carnival costumes of Les Joyeux Turlurons in Tintin and the Picaros. Groucho Marx amongst the crowd ogling at a blonde? I don't know about that... Please note that some of these comparisons are extracted by the author, who tried to read into Herge's mind. We will never know for sure what inspired Herge.

The criticism of the stories occasionally is uneven. The author knocks Flight 714 for stretching reality with its extraterrestrials and flying saucers. How about the Shooting Star, where a meteorite the size of an island drops out of the sky? Giant popping mushrooms and mutant arthropods, I don't know about that...

The text sometimes is dry, and sometimes too esoteric and only relevant to readers of the English editions of Tintin. I have read all Tintin books in French, so I could not care less about the subtleties of the English translations of French names. For other readers, this trivia may be interesting. Finally, the book ends abruptly, without as much as one paragraph of an epilogue, a reflection on the total Herge oeuvre.

Why the small print? The print is so tiny you almost need a magnifying glass. This is not a physics paper, it is a book about comics, and in comics readability is paramount.

Overall, this book undoubtedly was well researched. It definitely was worth the money. I came out with a renewed appreciation of Tintin and Herge. I wish the author was a more compelling writer.

My kids love this series.......2007-04-27

My kides are a little geeky and are enthralled by any of the series. It is good clasis sci fi for them. Suggested if you kids like adventure kid stories and sci fi.

Good intro to Tin Tin.......2006-12-21

I started reading Tin Tin when I was 10 but it never occurred to me that there was so much thoughts that went behind the series. The painstaking research, archival of photos, historical and political references that Herge went through just to get things right.
This book is by far the most comprehensive and detailed writing on the entire Tin Tin series. Michael Farr also compared the original French, black & white series to the English, color version. Though at times, the writing can be a little dry and has an academic feel, this book still triumphs in terms of accessibility to the general readers, both fans and non-fans.
The chapters are arranged in chronological order of each Tin Tin adventures. This arrangement gives the readers a sense of development of Herge's works.
Makes me want to pick up another adventure with Tin Tin.

A good start.......2006-09-02

A few months ago I was visited by a particularly nasty strain of influenza. As I sat paralysed in an easy chair with everything that could possibly hurt hurting, I had to decide how to pass the time, since nobody in my family would agree to shoot me. I couldn't concentrate to read the tiny print in a book. The thought of television nauseated me. Only one thing would do. Tintin books! I used to collect and read Tintin books with my son about fifteen years ago, and hadn't read one in at least ten years. So I re-read them all, from Tintin In America to Tintin and the Picaros and they were wonderfully therapeutic. I then went on to order Tintin In the Land of the Soviets, Tintin In the Congo and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks. My interest in Tintin being re-awakened, I looked for commentary and analysis about Tintin and Herge, and came across Tintin, The Complete Companion.

This is a good book and a boon for Tintin fans, but it is far from comprehensive. 205 pages in not enough space to satisfactorily comment on all of the ground covered by Herge and Tintin in their 40+ year careers. What I think is needed is a complete annotated Tintin, along the lines of the two excellent annotated Sherlock Holmes sets that are available. To be comprehensive it would have to be four volumes of about 500 pages each. It would be pricey but I and other Tintinophiles would pay up. Such a comprehensive study would carry odd, eccentric, but interesting features. For example, I came across a page on the internet where someone had catalogued all of Captain Haddock's curses -by volume, by who was being cursed at, etc. I unsuccessfully scoured Tintin, the Complete Companion to find out what a Bashi-Bazouk was, but then found it on the internet (it is a type of Turkish irregular soldier, very undisciplined). If we are going to go crazy about this plucky little reporter and his faithful dog, we might as well go all the way. While I was re-reading the books this time, I kept a tally of assaults and other insults upon Tintin's person, as follows (warning, I know I will have missed some since I was sick at the time):

-imprisoned: 10 -car/motorcycle crash (unconscious): 3
-hit over head: 20 -gun pointed at: 14
-car run off road: 2 -house blown up (unconscious): 1
-drugged: 7 -shot at: 44
-kicked by horse: 1 -fall from horse: 1
-tied up/handcuffed: 21 -falls over cliff: 1
-torpedoes fired at: 1 -train wreck: 1
-lynched (rope broke): 1 -plane hijacked: 1
-thrown into water (tied up): 3 -thrown into sausage machine: 1
-attacked with knife/sword: 5 -plane crashes/explodes: 2
-caught in volcanic eruption: 1 -falls into crevasse: 1
-caught in avalanche: 1 -buried alive: 1
-caught in bear/tiger trap: 2 -shot: 4
-knocks self out: 1 -tackled: 2
-punched/assaulted: 3 -bitten on nose by parrot: 1
-almost run down by car: 2 -faces firing squad: 1
-smoke inhalation: 1 -hits face with rake handle (unconscious): 1
-ship wreck: 1 -hit by car: 1
-swatted by shark's tail (unconscious): 1 -huge crate of sardines just misses: 1
-attacked by condor: 1 -falls from waterfall: 1
-attacked by Incas: 1 -bitten by rat: 1
-falls down steps (unconscious): 1 -blacks out during rocket launch: 2
-lack of oxygen (unconscious): 1

As you can see, this is one tough young man. Any one or two of the above incidents would have most people talking for years. One would have to fear for Tintin's health in later years from all those knocks on the head or post traumatic stress disorder from all of the close calls.

Back to Mr. Farr's book. Quibbles and suggestions are as follows:

Quibbles. 1. The chapter on The Black Island goes into minute, mostly boring, detail in describing the changes from the black and white to the colour edition. Some changes are interesting, most are not. Eg. P. 77: '... the ticket collector has dispensed with a wing collar and bow tie, preferring an ordinary tie and collar and a shorter coat. The Thom(p)sons have less luxurious moustaches...' 2. From the start, Farr is dismissive of Snowy. To me, Snowy is a major character and deserves to treated as such. 3. In regards to the moon books, many readers at the time would have been to the moon through the works of science fiction authors, such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Heinlein (Rocket Ship Galileo has a Nazi plot element similar to Herge's Borduria involvement) and others. Why not comment on this and compare? Did Herge read the stuff?

Suggestions: 1. Comment/discussion is needed in regards to Tintin's androgyny. There is no hint in any of the books that anything as strange and wonderful as sex exists on planet earth. There are very few female characters at all, and only one major one (Castafiore). Tintin never as much as holds hands with a girl, never goes on a date, and, indeed, shows absolutely no interest in the opposite sex (unlike his dog Snowy). Instead, he chooses to live in a huge mansion with a crusty, alcoholic sailor who also seems to have no girlfriend. In real life, eyebrows would be raised. While I have no problem with all of this, I think it does merit comment. 2. I would have liked Farr to tell the reader how King Ottokar's Sceptre was received in Nazi Germany. How about The Shooting Star? How did the Belgians take to Tintin during the occupation? Herge stayed in Belgium instead of fleeing, like many others, so he could contribute to keeping up his countryman's spirits. Did he have an effect? 3. The index of the book in spotty and incomplete. It should be alphabetised and greatly expanded.

Fantastic Creatures: 122 Bizarre Beings (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Quirky, curious, odd and bizarre

Fantastic Creatures: 122 Bizarre Beings (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
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122 bizarre figures: half-human insects, fish with human limbs, men with drums for torsos, much more.

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Quirky, curious, odd and bizarre.......2005-11-11

If you are looking for a book of cute little critters then this one is not for you. The figures are rather odd but very expressive. Most are neither person or animal; many with armour, cloaks, single socks and scabbards. It is a truly bizarre collection but for someone looking for something very different, this book is a gem.

The drawings are line drawings with a little 'texture'. They would be great for altered books, collage or card art. I've taken to painting mine with twinkling H20s for a vibrant watercolour which suits these unusual creations.

As with many Dover books - you can use up to ten images in your art copyright free. These are so delectable that one is all you need to make a statement.

The Oxford German Cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder

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Outstanding book - well worth it.
For people who knows how to laugh at life
Sullen and Cranky

The Oxford German Cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder

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Outstanding book - well worth it........2006-07-31

I accepted a short-term exchange assignment in Deutschland this summer and needed to rapidly ramp up my 30 year old German. The cartoon strip book was an invaluable aid in improving my vocabulary and at the same time was quite funny (wirklich, kein Quatsch). I strongly recommend it to anyone trying to increase their German vocabulary, especially as the language is really spoken in Deutschland. It does assume a basic konowledge of German grammar and usage.

For people who knows how to laugh at life.......2001-11-13

If you are looking for a quick laugh, and then forget about what you laugh or learn about after you close the book, this is not the one to buy. I learn a lot of daily French talking from this book, as well as how French people think. To me, it is not just a comics book; it became my friend.

Sullen and Cranky.......2001-04-18

These cartoons are great--the teenagers are sullen and cranky, the characters find themselves in embarrassing situations, just like real life. I've used the French edition of this series, too, and this German version is just as good. You learn useful words such as "das Handy" (cell phone) and phrases like "im Internet surfen" (to surf the Internet. Very effective and a lot of fun.

The charged image: French lithographic caricature, 1816-1848

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Revolutionary rumblings (Chester the Crab's comics with content series) (Chester the Crab's comics with content series)

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Chester is awesome

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Chester Comix can teach history to reluctant readers! The full-color comic Revolutionary Rumblings traces the political and economic arguments leading up to the American Revolution: the French and Indian War, the Boston Tea Party, the Committees of Correspondence, the Continental Congress and Battle of Lexington and Concord. Jokes and action carry today's students through these hard nonfiction concepts. A timeline across the top of every page helps them place events and people in context. The title on each page is a question, which makes for a good writing prompt. And the comix is indexed, making it a good research tool.

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Chester is awesome.......2006-07-24

I have used Chester successfully in my 4th grade classroom for years, and he never fails to capture the attention of my students, even my reluctant ones! I highly recommend Chester and all his adventures to history lovers of all ages. Boyd has an uncanny ability to uniquely illustrate historical issues using Chester and his friends which is fun and entertaining to read.

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