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Article: Tintin and Hergé
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Tintin and Herg
é
The character of Tintin, the courageous boy reporter, was created in 1929 by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (1907
–
1983). The cast
–
including Tintin, his dog Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Bianca Castafiore, and others
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appeared in a series of twenty-three adventures between 1930 and 1976; the final Tintin album,
Tintinet l'Alph-Art
(
Tintin and Alpha-Art
[1990]), was left unfinished at Remi's death and was published in notes form in 1986.
Remi (better known by his
nom de plume
Herg
é
, the French pronunciation of his initials in reversed order, "RG") began his career as an illustrator for the conservative, Roman ...