![]() At the age of eleven, he joined the Belgian Boy Scouts whose ideals would eventually become one of the primary inspirations for the character of Tintin. Fascinated with art from a young age, Hergé was largely self-taught as he disliked the regimented ![]() Hergé was born on May 22, 1907, to Alexis and Elisabeth Rémi in a suburb of Brussels, Belgium. However, regardless of such questions surrounding Hergé's personal politics, his child-hero Tintin has remained as an international icon of graphic literature and continues to inspire a loyal global fan base over twenty years after his creator's death. Still, despite the enormous popularity of the series, there has been some controversy surrounding Hergé's legacy, with certain critics accusing his "Tintin" comics of endorsing racism, rightwing extremism, and paternalistic colonialism. ![]() Tintin's adventures contain little dialogue, yet still manage to present a cohesive and compelling narrative through their unique intertextual harmony between word and image. Collected in twenty-four volumes and spanning over fifty years, Hergé's "Tintin" series is one of the most internationally recognized comic strips of all time, translated into more than thirty languages with collections selling over one hundred and fifty million copies worldwide. One of the pioneers of the French art form of the bande dessinée-otherwise known as comic strips or sequential art-cartoonist Georges Rémi, better known under his pseudonym of Hergé, chronicled the far-flung adventures of the boy reporter Tintin, his trusty dog Snowy, and their companions Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thomson and Thompson. For further information on the "Tintin" series, see CLR, Volume 6. The following entry presents commentary on Rémi's "Tintin" comic strip series (1930–1986) through 2004. (Born Georges Rémi) Belgian author and illustrator of comic strips.
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