Michael Farr

Michael Farr (born 1953) is a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé.

Educated at Harrow School, and then a history scholar at Trinity College Cambridge, he read Theology as his part one before changing to Fine Art in which he gained an MA.

He became a reporter, first for Reuters and then the Daily Telegraph, travelling around the world as a foreign correspondent.

After meeting Hergé, Farr started writing books about Tintin.

In 2004 Farr was interviewed on BBC News in a section on the Tintin exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.