Hergé, most popularly known as the creator of the Tintin series is regarded as one of the most important and influential comic creators in history. Tintin’s 23 album titles have been translated into every language, and is one of the most successful European comic magazines of all time. Other series by him are Quick et Flupke and Jo, Zette et Jocko‘.
The Tintin 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). Soon the series saw themselves as serialized strips published in Belgium’s leading newspaper and eventually spun into a successful Tintin magazine.
Here are six facts about the illustrator of this comic, Hergé.
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