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Book Reviews -- "Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin" By Pierre Assouline. "God Of Comics: Osamu Tezuka And The Creation Of Post–World War II Manga" By Natsu Onoda Power. "Looking For Calvin And Hobbes: The Unconventional Story Of Bill Watterson And His Revolutionary Comic Strip" By Nevin Martell.

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posted on 2025-08-08, 17:08 authored by Craig Fischer
Three recent books—Pierre Assouline's Hergé, Natsu Onoda Power's God of Comics and Nevin Martell's Looking for Calvin and Hobbes—aspire to be comprehensive, accessible biographies/critical studies of their subjects, though these books vary widely in quality.

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    EISSN - Is published in https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1553-1201
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    DOI - Is version of https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2010.0004

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2010

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    Comic books, strips, etc.—History and criticismBiography as a literary formAuthors—Biography—Criticism and interpretation

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