Captain Haddock Hergé thought this was a perfect name for Tintin’s new mariner friend, and so Captain Haddock was born. There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert Haddock had been the skipper of the famous White Star Line's passenger vessel "Olympic". He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's even more famous sister ship "Titanic" before "Titanic" was officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912 maiden voyage. Another famous namesake, and a possible inspiration for the Captain's ancestor Sir Francis, was the English admiral Richard Haddock, a veteran of
Greg (cartoonist) 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 discontinued it. The series for which Greg is best