Captain Haddock Captain Haddock as a permanent addition to the cast. Hergé introduced Captain Haddock in "The Crab with the Golden Claws" as the rum-loving captain of the "Karaboudjan", a merchant vessel used— without Haddock's knowledge— by his first mate Allan for smuggling drugs inside crab tins. Because of his alcoholism and temperamental nature, his character was weak and unstable, at times posing as great a hazard to Tintin as the villains of the piece. He was also short-tempered, given to emotional expletive-ridden outbursts, and capable of infuriating behaviour; at one point he even attacks Tintin when, while traversing the Moroccan desert,
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