"The Adventures of Tintin" ( _fr. Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Hergé,
the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). The series first
appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper _fr. "Le Vingtième Siècle"
on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely
mirroring our own, the series has continued as a favourite of readers
and critics alike for over 70 years.

The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy ("Milou" in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus ("Professeur Tournesol") and other colourful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson ("Dupond et Dupont").

The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics
of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages
and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.
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