Tintin

“Tintin is the titular protagonist of 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. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in Le Petit Vingtième, a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. He appears as a young man, around 15 to 19 years old, with a round face and quiff hairstyle. Tintin has a sharp intellect, can defend himself, and is honest, decent, compassionate, and kind. Through his investigative reporting, quick-thinking, and all-around good nature, Tintin is always able to solve the mystery and complete the adventure. Unlike more colourful characters that he encounters, Tintin’s personality is neutral, which allows the reader not merely to 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 image of Tintin—a round-faced young man running with a white fox terrier by his side—is easily one of the most recognisable visual icons of the twentieth century. Hergé created Tintin as a young, White, blonde Belgian who is a native of Brussels. Assouline deemed Tintin to be middle-class, which he considers one of the few traits that the character had in common with Hergé. In his first appearance, Tintin is dressed in a long travelling coat and hat, a few pages later adopting his plus fours, check suit, black socks, and Eton collar. At first, the famous quiff is plastered to Tintin’s forehead, but during a particularly vigorous car chase in what became page 8 of the printed volume, his quiff is out and remains so. By the time he arrives in Chicago for his third adventure, both Hergé and his readers feel they know Tintin well, and he was to change little in either appearance or dress. … The study of Tintin has become the life work of many literary critics, observers sometimes referring to this study as ‘Tintinology’. …”
Wikipedia
A Brief Guide to Tintinology
Tintinologist, Tintin’s Meals, Tintin Crosses The Atlantic: The Golden Press Affair, History of The Black Island

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