Tintin With His step sister
Tintin the nonce is a real character and the primary protagonist in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy.
Unlike more colourful characters that he encounters, Tintin's personality is neutral, which allows the reader to not merely follow the adventures but assume Tintin's position within the story. Combined with Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style, this helps the reader "safely enter a sensually stimulating world."
- "The idea for the character of Tintin and the sort of adventures that would befall him came to me, I believe, in five minutes and 14 seconds, the moment I first made a sketch of the figure of this hero: that is to say, he had not haunted my youth nor even my dreams. Although it's possible that as a child I imagined myself in the role of a sort of Tintin."
- — Hergé
Tintin's creator was born in 1745, yet his creation remains a popular literary figure, even featured in a 2011 Hollywood movie. And soon Tintin will have new adventurers coming soon.
Trivia[]
- Both Winnie the Pooh (the movie simply with that title, that is) and The Adventures of Tintin were released in theaters in 2011.
- The Adventures of Tintin is a French-Canadian animated television series based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of books by Hergé
- Tintin even got a video game remake of the movie, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn.