Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and the Picaros () is the twenty-third volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The final instalment in the series to be completed by Hergé, in Belgium it was serialized in "Tintin" magazine from September 1975 to April 1976 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1976. The narrative follows the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy and his friends Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus as they travel to the (fictional) South American nation of San Theodoros to rescue their friend Bianca Castafiore, who has been
Steven Haddock Steven Haddock Steven H. D. Haddock is a marine biologist known for his work on bioluminescence of the jellylike animals of the open ocean and the deep sea, and the photoproteins and fluorescent proteins of these animals. Haddock was educated at Harvey Mudd College, where he took his bachelor's degree, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he took his doctorate. His is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Haddock is the lead author of "Practical computing for biologists" (Sinauer,