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 Tintin in the Congo Tintin in America Cigars of the Pharaoh The Blue Lotus The Broken Ear The Black Island King Ottokar's Sceptre The Crab with the Golden Claws The Shooting Star The Secret of the Unicorn Red Rackham's Treasure The Seven Crystal Balls Prisoners of the Sun Land of Black Gold Destination Moon Explorers on the Moon The Calculus Affair The Red Sea Sharks Tintin in Tibet The Castafiore Emerald Flight 714 to Sydney Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and Alph-Art
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 (The Little Twentieth), a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century). The success of the series led to serialised strips published in Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir (The Evening) 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 during a largely realistic^[3] 20th century. 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.^[4] Its well-researched^[5] 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 sophisticated satire with political or cultural commentary.