Adventures of
Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a
series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi
(1907-1983), who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series is one of
the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations
published in more than 50 languages and sales of more than 200 million
copies
The series first appeared in French on January 10, 1929 in Le Petit
Vingtième, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le XXe
Siècle. The success of the series saw the serialised strips published in
Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir and spun into a successful Tintin
magazine.
 In 1950, Hergé created Studios Hergé, which produced the canonical
series of twenty-four Tintin albums. The Adventures of Tintin have been
adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film.
The series is set during a largely realistic 20th century. Its hero
is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided by his faithful fox
terrier dog Snowy (Milou in the original French editions). Later,
popular additions to the cast included the brash and cynical Captain
Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus
(French: Professeur Tournesol), and other supporting characters such as
the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (French: Dupont et
Dupond).
The series has been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in
Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style.
Its well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling
adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and
science fiction.
The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of
sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary
Georges Remi came up with the character of Tintin, a young boy
reporter, whilst working at the Belgian newspaper Le XXe Siècle (The
20th Century).. Writing under his pen name, Hergé pioneered the new
character in the story Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
This comic, which involved Tintin battling the socialist authorities
in the Soviet Union, was serialised in Le XXe Siècle's supplement for
children, Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth), from January 10,
1929 until 11 May 1930.The series was an instant success; sales of the
Thursday edition of the newspaper, the day the supplement appeared, were
to increase by 600 percent.
Hergé to penned a string of Adventures of Tintin, sending his
character to real locations such as the Belgian Congo, the United
States, Egypt, India, China, and the United Kingdom, and also to
fictional countries of his own devising, such as the Latin American
republic of San Theodoros, the East European kingdom of Syldavia, or the
fascist state Borduria-whose leader, Müsstler, was a combination of Nazi
German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
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