A symbol of highly prized journalistic honesty, the shrewd reporter Tintin is one of the most beloved and admired comic book characters of the 20th century. Born in 1929 from the pen of the Belgian Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, Tintin, everlastingly young, faced cartoon after cartoon against tyranny and denounced injustice, gathering courage and audacity. All this, without us seeing him write a single line.
Hergé, in charge of Le Petit Vingtième, the youth supplement of a Catholic ideology newspaper, published what would become his alter ego for the first time in 1929. Turned into a milestone in comics, his popularity can be summed up in 250 million albums sold and two million euros per year for the sale of books translated into more than one hundred languages. Hergé, at the age of 75, orphaned his children on March 3, 1983.
