Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike Hall ( ) is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The original French name of the hall, "Moulinsart", is derived from Sart-Moulin, a village near Braine-l'Alleud in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. In an allusion to the Haddock family's maritime history, the hall's English name refers to the marlinspike, a tool used in seamanship to splice ropes. The Belgian corporation managing Hergé's work (principally "Tintin") is also called Moulinsart S.A. Marlinspike Hall first appears in "The Secret of the Unicorn" as the home of the story's
Fred (cartoonist) Fred (cartoonist) Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès (5 March 1931 – 2 April 2013), known by his pseudonym Fred, was a French cartoonist in the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. He is best known for his series "Philémon". Born in Paris, France on March 5, 1931, the son of Greek immigrants, Fred began his career in his early twenties, getting a cartoon published in the magazine "Zéro" in 1954. The following years he was published in several magazines, both French and foreign, such as "Ici Paris", "France Dimanche", "Punch" and "The New Yorker", among others. In 1960, he created the satirical journal "Hara-Kiri"