Tintin Guide - Chars and Episodes (PDF)

Tintin Guide - Chars and Episodes


The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

The series first appeared in French on 10 January 1929 and is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century.
By the time of the centenary of Hergé's birth in 2007, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies.


Tintin, a young Belgian reporter and adventurer.
He is aided by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy.
Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash and cynical Captain Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus, and other supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson 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.
Its well-researched 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 and political or cultural commentary.