The Adventures of Tintin

*The Adventures of Tintin*
The Adventures of Tintin
	The main characters of The Adventures of Tintin from left to right: ; Professor Calculus, Captain Haddock, Tintin and Snowy, Thomson and Thompson, and ; Bianca Castafiore
Created by	Hergé
Publication information
Publisher	Casterman; Le Lombard; Egmont Group; Little, Brown and Company;
Title(s)
	Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930); Tintin in the Congo (1931); Tintin in America (1932); Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934); The Blue Lotus (1936); The Broken Ear (1937); The Black Island (1938); King Ottokar's Sceptre (1939); The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941); The Shooting Star (1942); The Secret of the Unicorn (1943); Red Rackham's Treasure (1944); The Seven Crystal Balls (1948); Prisoners of the Sun (1949); Land of Black Gold (1950); Destination Moon (1953); Explorers on the Moon (1954); The Calculus Affair (1956); The Red Sea Sharks (1958); Tintin in Tibet (1960); The Castafiore Emerald (1963); Flight 714 to Sydney (1968); Tintin and the Picaros (1976); Tintin and Alph-Art (1986);
Formats	Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Le Petit Vingtième (newspaper supplement, 1929–1940); Le Soir (newspaper, 1940–1944); Tintin (magazine, 1946-–1976); and a set of graphic novels.
Original language	French
Genre	Action/adventure;
Publication date	1929–1976
Main character(s)	Tintin; Snowy (Milou); Captain Haddock; Professor Calculus (Tryphon Tournesol); Thomson and Thompson (Dupond and Dupont); Bianca Castafiore;
Creative team
Writer(s)	Hergé
Artist(s)	Hergé; Uncredited:; Bob de Moor; Edgar P. Jacobs; Jacques Martin; Roger Leloup;
Colourist(s)	Edgar P. Jacobs; Josette Baujot; Fanny Rodwell; (all uncredited)

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin [lez‿avɑ̃tyʁ də tɛ̃tɛ̃]) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By 2007, a century after Hergé's birth in 1907,^[1] Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies,^[2] and had been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film.

The series first appeared in French on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième, a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. The success of the series led to 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 versions of ten Tintin albums. Following Hergé's death in 1983, the final instalment of the series, Tintin and Alph-Art, was released posthumously.

The series is set in the contemporary world. Its protagonist is Tintin, a courageous young Belgian reporter and adventurer aided by his faithful dog Snowy (Milou in the original French edition). Other allies include the brash and cynical Captain Haddock, the intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (French: Professeur Tournesol), incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (French: Dupont et Dupond), and the opera diva Bianca Castafiore.

The series has been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style.^[3] Its well-researched^[4] 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 political or cultural commentary.

^ Pollard 2007; Bostock & Brennan 2007; The Age 24 May 2006; Junkers 2007.
^ Farr 2007a, p. 4.
^ Screech 2005, p. 27; Miller 2007, p. 18; Clements 2006; Wagner 2006; Lichfield 2006; Macintyre 2006; Gravett 2008.
^ Thompson 2003; Gravett 2005; Mills 1983.

[FOOTNOTEPollard2007BostockBrennan2007The_Age_24_May2006Junkers2007-1] Pollard 2007; Bostock & Brennan 2007; The Age 24 May 2006; Junkers 2007.

[FOOTNOTEFarr2007a4-2] Farr 2007a, p. 4.

[FOOTNOTEScreech200527Miller200718Clements2006Wagner2006Lichfield2006Macintyre2006Gravett2008-3] Screech 2005, p. 27; Miller 2007, p. 18; Clements 2006; Wagner 2006; Lichfield 2006; Macintyre 2006; Gravett 2008.

[FOOTNOTEThompson2003Gravett2005Mills1983-4] Thompson 2003; Gravett 2005; Mills 1983.

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