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...adventures of Tintin, a young reporter, were chronicled in 23 books published between 1929 and 1976, which have collectively sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. This was hardly anticipated when a crudely drawn Tintin made his first appearance on January 10, 1929 in a comic supplement to a Brussels newspaper in a story entitled "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets...
...immediate hit with the Belgian public, and was quickly dispatched to other hotspots of the time, from Al Capone's Chicago to Japanese-occupied China. Tintin is ostensibly a reporter, but he never appears to have deadlines or editors; he is actually seen filing a story in only frame over the entire oeuvre...
...Like Jules Verne, Hergé rarely left his desk, but he made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...There is something about Tintin that defies time, language and culture," says Michael Farr, author of Tintin: The Complete Companion. "The child will be gripped by the excitement, the comedy and even the farce. The adult will additionally find political satire and parody, puns and prescience...
...early books included coarse stereotypes, and Hergé has been accused of racism in Tintin in Congo (although this book is particularly popular in Africa). Hergé was later arrested for being a wartime collaborator as he continued to draw cartoons for newspapers that were controlled by the Nazi occupiers during World War II. He spent a night in prison, but his file was eventually closed without legal action. But rumors and insinuations followed him for the rest of his life, and he had frequent bouts of depression...