Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin is a Belgian comic book franchise created by the cartoonist Georges Remi, known by his pen name Herge, following the young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy across 24 main comic albums published between 1929 and 1976, in which the pair, often accompanied by the gruff Captain Haddock, travel the world investigating mysteries and confronting criminals, smugglers and political intrigue. Herge's clear line drawing style, characterized by clean lines and minimal shading, became enormously influential on later European comics, and the series has sold more than 230 million copies worldwide in more than 70 languages, making it one of the most successful and widely translated comic book franchises ever produced. The franchise has been adapted into animated television series, radio dramas, stage productions and Steven Spielberg's 2011 motion capture animated film The Adventures of Tintin, and a dedicated museum, the Herge Museum, opened near Brussels in 2009 to preserve the artist's work, though some of the earliest albums have also drawn later scrutiny for colonial era racial stereotyping, an issue the franchise's stewards and scholars have openly acknowledged.