Captain Haddock oeuvre", it is inspired by the German French-language film "Captain Craddock". In "The Crab with the Golden Claws", Haddock sings one of the film songs, "Les gars de la Marine". At the time of Captain Haddock's introduction to the series in 1940, the character's manners presented a problem to Hergé. As a sailor, Haddock would need to have a very colourful vocabulary, but Hergé could not use any swear words as he knew his audience included children. The solution reportedly came when Hergé recalled how around 1933, shortly after the Four-Power Pact had come into being, he had overheard a
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