Essentials about Tintin and Hergé

The Adventures of Tintin is a world-famous comic series, created from 1929 onwards by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi (1907-1983). The series is composed of 24 albums, from the first album Tintin in the Land of the Soviets in 1930 to the last one, Tintin and the Alph-Art (unfinished album).
Tintin and Snowy
Tintin and Snowy © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024

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The main characters of the Adventures of Tintin

Tintin is, of course, much more than the intrepid hero whose cause is just and whose heart is pure: he is the centre piece of a complex universe where we are placed face to face with our own reality. Characters such as captain Haddock, professor Calculus, Bianca Castafiore, or Thompson & Thomson, are lending colour, depth, and perspective to his world. Tintin: a unique palette of qualities, combining breathtaking tales, clear line graphics, and themes of universal appeal.
Captain Haddock
Captain Haddock © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Professor Cuthbert Calculus
Professor Cuthbert Calculus © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Thomson and Thompson
Thomson and Thompson © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Bianca Castafiore
Bianca Castafiore © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Roberto Rastapopoulos
Roberto Rastapopoulos © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Nestor
Nestor © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Abdallah
Abdallah © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Jolyon Wagg
Jolyon Wagg © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
General Alcazar
General Alcazar © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Reprinted and published in ever greater numbers, the books are a source of inspiration for artists, writers, producers, and directors. Tintin personifies all of the universal values that are a mirror to everyone's own aspirations. Eternally youthful, the indefatigable reporter continues to conquer the world with unflagging, never-failing vitality.

Tintin's legendary quiff did not always exist...

In Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, our hero has his hair pulled forward for eight pages. In the last square of this eighth page, Tintin starts off in a convertible car. His quiff rises up and will never fall down again.
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets - Tintin's puff rises up and will never fall down again
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930) page 8 © Hergé / Tintinimaginatio - 2024
Did you know ?
  • Tintin was born on 10 January 1929 in the Belgian weekly "Le Petit Vingtième".
  • Snowy is an exceptionally white wire Fox terrier.
  • Since 1929, more than 270 million copies (figures for 2019) have been sold. The Tintin adventures have been translated in more than 110 languages.
  • The real name of Tintin's creator is Georges Remi. By reversing his initials to R.G. he created his pen name: Hergé.
  • Tintin explores the moon in 1953, i.e. 16 years before Neil Armstrong.
  • The Thom(p)sons are not brothers nor identical. We can tell the difference between them by comparing their moustaches.
  • The first appearance of Captain Haddock: The Crab with Golden Claws (the 9th adventure).

Hergé, an unassuming genius

Hergé, or Georges Remi, born in Brussels on May 22, 1907, studied at the college of Saint-Boniface, where, in his own words, he was bored to death. In 1921, he joins the boy scouts, where he acquires the totem name of Inquisitive Fox, and his first drawings are subsequently reproduced in the boy scouts magazines? Upon completion of his studies, Georges Remi is employed in the subscription department of the magazine Le Vingtième Siècle. His career, interrupted in 1927 by his military service, takes a new turn in 1928 when he is made responsible for designing, supervising, and illustrating Le Petit Vingtième, a weekly supplement intended for the magazine's youthful readership. Tintin and Snowy make their debut there on January 10 in 1929.
“Hergé in the shadow of Tintin (Hergé à l'ombre de Tintin)”. © 2016 – ARTE France / GEDEON programmes / MOULINSART SA / RMN-Grand Palais / RTBF
In those first stories, which he considers fun things, a game, Hergé allows his imagination free rein: he improvises instead of elaborating the plot. But, in 1934, Tchong-Jen, a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. The young Chinese persuades him to write well-researched stories and to get solid documentation for his material. Tchang's subsequent influence on Hergé's work is obvious. During the war, Hergé works for the news-paper Le Soir, for which he will later on be censored by certain quarters, because Le Soir was being published with permission from the occupying Nazi forces. Neverthel-ess, when reading the Adventures of Tintin, one can get a taste of Hergé's aversion (The Blue Lotus), or of his skepticism (Tintin and the Picaros), to and with the notion of totalitarian regimes.
Did you know ?
  • On May 22, 1907: Georges Remi, or Hergé is born in Brussels.
  • On January 10, 1929: Tintin and Snowy characters appear for the first time.
  • In 1930: The first comic book: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
  • In 1946: Publication of the first issue of the Journal Tintin
  • In 1950: Hergé sets up the Hergé Studios.
  • In 1976: Latest Album: Tintin and the Picaros.
  • On March 3, 1983: Hergé passes away...
As of 1946, the Tintin adventures will appear in their own weekly, titled Tintin (or Kuifje in the Dutch edition), at the initiative of Raymond Leblanc.
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risasnowy123
14/01/2024 17:55 PM
Hi there i wanted to ask are the m geo magazines available to purchase? Kind regards risa
kairi
22/12/2023 12:32 PM
Tintin animation aired several times in my childhood (in the 90's) but I wasn't adept at English, so I didn't appreciate it much.

Then they aired it again but I was too busy at school. At school though I became a student librarian, and stumbled upon the comics.

It was so valuable that it can't be borrowed. I have to read it in the library.

Those days are awesome.
judyzazu
15/11/2023 03:31 AM
I'm 77 and have loved Tin Tin for many years. I'm so glad to have found this site that brings back so many wonderful memories of his adventures.
typhoon5
21/10/2023 19:39 PM
I really want Tintin in Alph-art finished.
akshat1201
28/06/2023 14:02 PM
Please
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks Book and Movie
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun Movie
Tintin and the Blue Oranges Movie
Tintin and Alph-Art New Book
miloutinin
24/05/2023 09:21 AM
its real love
tintinsopyay
08/05/2023 09:25 AM
Tin Tin is one of greatest cartoon character.
jacowals
07/05/2023 08:11 AM
Yes i agree its great for all ages. I agree with miloutinin because we live in the same town
miloutinin
22/04/2023 16:00 PM
but tomorrow may rain so i'l follow the sun
rai2010
12/03/2023 07:42 AM
Thanks to Herge for making the life colourful for children and adults alike for over eighty years. I am a second generation tintin reader :)
tintinil
04/03/2023 16:05 PM
Tintin is the singular reason to inspire someone like me, a simple middle-class small town Bengali speaking boy to be grown into an honest brave and exploring scientist who still dreams of going to some adventure with Tintin and Co. Thank you, Merci, Danke, Grazie and Dhonyobaad.
thetintinguy
31/01/2023 17:43 PM
the Tintin and the Picaros and explorers on the moon are my favorite
shlomo613
29/01/2023 16:05 PM
TINTIN is the BEST
itsthomas
23/01/2023 12:01 PM
TinTin FOREVER!
shahadat
12/01/2023 17:40 PM
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annihilation
19/12/2022 02:33 AM
丁丁永不老
sv1it
09/12/2022 08:20 AM
Tintin was my favourite comic since I was 10 and still is. I own all 24+ 1 books in four languages (French, English , German and Greek)
mohammadali
13/11/2022 13:42 PM
Tintin is the best
I have great collection of tin tin.
inigos
01/10/2022 18:19 PM
Me encantan los cómics de Tintín 😍😍😍
hanzz
17/09/2022 22:16 PM
Tintin is the only comics that I love lol
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