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[1] The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strip narratives created by Georges Remi under the pseudonym Hergé (a reversal of his initials, R G, as pronounced in French). They first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle in 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, The Adventures of Tintin present a number of well realised characters in distinctive settings. The series has continued as a favourite of readers and critics alike for over 70 years.

The hero of the series is the titular character, Tintin, a young reporter and traveller. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included Captain Haddock and other colourful supporting characters.

The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected into a series of albums, spun into a successful magazine and adapted for both 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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An image from the Little Nemo comic strip. Art by Little Nemo creator Winsor McCay. The artist is one of the 15 cartoonists whose work was being exhibited in the Masters of American Comics exhibition.
An image from the Little Nemo comic strip. Art by Little Nemo creator Winsor McCay. The artist is one of the 15 cartoonists whose work was being exhibited in the Masters of American Comics exhibition.


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... that Sergio Aragonés is the only cartoonist to have won National Cartoonists Society awards in six different categories?

... that Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters The Smurfs first appeared in the Belgian comic Johan and Peewit in 1958?

... that Stephen Duffy, the first vocalist of Duran Duran, played in the band Tin Tin, named after The Adventures of Tintin?

... that Patrick McDonnell, author of Mutts, is a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States?

... that Astro Boy, the fictional hero of the first real anime, obtained special citizenship from the Japanese city Niiza on April 7, 2003, his birthday in the comic?

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