Kuifie en die Pikaro's by Hergé

Kuifie en die Pikaro's (Afrikaans Tintin Album in Illustrated Wrappers)

Hergé's final completed Tintin adventure in Afrikaans, from the Human & Rousseau series Die Avonture van Kuifie

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Kuifie en die Pikaro's
• Author: Hergé
• Publisher: Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN-13: 9780798148085
• Edition Details: Eerste Afrikaanse uitgawe as printed. Translated into Afrikaans by Sonya van Schalkwyk.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated card wrappers with orange spine, lettered to spine. Large album format.
• Physical Format: Large album-format softcover, approximately 295 x 220 mm. Full-colour comic strip pages.
• Language: Afrikaans

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Wraps: Illustrated card wrappers with an orange spine that is intact and lettered. The front cover has a rubbed and scuffed patch with some surface loss at the top edge near the yellow title panel and blue band, with further whitish scuffing. The fore-edge and bottom corner show wear and rubbing, and a small piece of tape or paper residue sits at the edge of the fore-edge and spine fold. The back cover carries dark smudges on the white title-list panel, general rubbing and edge wear. Corners are slightly rounded.
• Interior: The pages seen are clean and bright, with the colour strips intact, and the binding is tight.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Kuifie en die Pikaro's is the Afrikaans edition of Hergé's Tintin et les Picaros, part of the Afrikaans series Die Avonture van Kuifie published by Human & Rousseau. Kuifie once more finds himself in San Theodoros, this time to save his reputation and restore his good name.

Together with Kaptein Haddock and Professor Archimedes, he is drawn into political intrigue in a South American country, with a coup, jungle travel and the carnival Pikaros.

The album is the last Tintin adventure Hergé completed. It ran in Tintin magazine from September 1975 to April 1976 and appeared as a collected volume from Casterman in 1976. The Afrikaans series began in 1973, and this paperback edition carries the translation of Sonya van Schalkwyk.

A large-format, full-colour album, offered as a used collectible copy for Tintin collectors and readers of Afrikaans comics.

Author Profile: Hergé

Hergé was the pen name of Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983), the Belgian comic strip artist best remembered for creating The Adventures of Tintin.

His other notable works include Quick & Flupke and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko. Tintin and Alph-Art was left incomplete at his death and the manuscript was published posthumously in 1986.

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