Tintin and the Secret of Literature

"Hergé's 'Tintin' cartoons have been read by tens of milllions and translated into more than fifty languages. Here Tom McCarthy asks a beguilingly simple question: are they literature? Taking his cue from Tintin himself, who spends much of his time tracking down illicit radio signals, entering crypts and decoding puzzles, McCarthy suggests that we too need to 'tune in' and decode if we want to capture what's really going on in Hergé's work."--Back cover.