Hergé
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May 23, 2009
— Text and illustration by Joe Alterio. To view a gallery of Alterio’s HiLobrow illustrations, click here.
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On his or her birthday, HiLobrow irregularly pays tribute to one of our high-, low-, no-, or hilobrow heroes. Also born this date: Scatman Crothers, Robert Moog, Ruth Underwood.
READ MORE about members of the Partisan Generation (1904-13).
There has been plenty of speculation about who Hergé modeled Tintin after… I think the answer is made clear by this photograph of Robert Walser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_walser_1890er.jpg