Captain Haddock since creating Tintin." Sales of the volume in which Haddock was introduced indicated the character was well received. After a fairly serious role in "The Shooting Star", where he has risen to become the President of the Society of Sober Sailors (replete with a cabin full of rum), Haddock takes a more central role in the next adventure, split over two books, "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure"— indeed, his family history drives the plot. Upon locating the treasure, the newly wealthy Haddock retires. Hergé built the next adventure around Haddock, furnishing the character with an ancestral
Greg (cartoonist) year the comic appeared in a magazine or newspaper. Greg (cartoonist) Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for "Achille Talon", and later became editor of "Tintin" magazine. Regnier was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1931. His first series, "Les Aventures de Nestor et Boniface", appeared in the Belgian magazine "Vers l'Avenir" when he was sixteen. He moved to the comic magazine "Héroic Albums", going on to work for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine "Spirou" in 1954. In 1955 he launched his own magazine, "Paddy", but eventually