10 de Janeiro de 1929

Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.The Adventures of Tintin (originally Les Aventures de Tintin), drawn and written by the Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi a.k.a. Hergé, is one of the most popular 20th century European comics. Over 200 million books have been produced to date, with translations into over 50 languages.

The hero of the series is a young reporter and traveller named Tintin, aided by his faithful dog Snowy (Milou in the original French-language version), Captain Haddock and a variety of colourful supporting characters. The comic book series has long been admired for its clean but expressive drawings (executed in Hergé's signature ligne claire style), engaging plots, and the painstaking research of the later stories.

The series straddles a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. All the titles in the Tintin series include plenty of slapstick humour, offset in later albums by dashes of sophisticated satire and political/cultural commentary. Although it is rarely explicitly stated in the books, Tintin resides in Belgium. This is evidenced in certain books taking place in Tintin's homeland, where Hergé drew some easily recognisable Belgian locations, and more explicitly in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets where it is said that Tintin arrives in Brussels as he comes back home.

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