The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a comic book series by Belgian author and cartoonist Hergé. Hergé began developing his ideas in 1929 and the series soon grew to become very popular throughout the world. The English translated version of Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner is also renowned.
The comic books tell the story of a young Belgian reporter named Tintin, and all the dangerous, exciting and humorous adventures he has all over the world. He is nearly always accompanied by his pet fox-terrier, Snowy, as well as the grumpy sailor, Captain Haddock, the absent-minded inventor, Professor Calculus, and the two foolish detectives, Thompson and Thomson.
Settings[]
- Main article: Settings in The Adventures of Tintin
The series is set all over the world in both real countries as well as many fictitious ones. Tintin lives in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. The actual nations featured include Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, the Belgian Congo, Peru, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, and China. Other actual locations featured are the Sahara Desert, the Atlantic Ocean and the Moon. The fictional lands include San Theodoros, São Rico, and Nuevo-Rico in South America, the kingdom or administrative region of Gaipajama in India, and Khemed on the Arabian Peninsula.
Books[]
The real-life countries visited in The Adventures of Tintin
- 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
- Tintin and the Picaros
- Tintin and Alph-Art
Main Characters[]
- Tintin
- Snowy
- Captain Archibald Haddock
- Professor Cuthbert Calculus
- Bianca Castafiore
- Piotr Skut
- Thomson and Thompson
- Jolyon Wagg
- General Alcazar
- Nestor
- Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab
- Abdullah
- Oliveira de Figueira
- Roberto Rastapopoulos
- Chang Chong-Chen
- Allan Thompson
- Ridgewell
- J. W. Müller
- Colonel Sponsz
- Oliveira de Figueira
External Links[]
- The Adventures of Tintin - The official Tintin website
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