Tintin expert named Britain's first professor of comics
November 27, 2015  22:30
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Lancaster University has created a new faculty position, for a professor in the art of graphic novels. Benoit Peeters, a French graphic novelist and literary critic, has been appointed as the university's Visiting Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, the first appointment of its kind in the UK.

Peeters, whose works include Tintin and the World of Herg, has written extensively about the Belgian cartoon character and his creator. Reflecting on the writer's quiet life in Herg, Son of Tintin, Peeters argues that "it was, more than anything else, the character that built its author.'

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