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
John Ryan (cartoonist) John Ryan (cartoonist) John Gerald Christopher Ryan (4 March 1921 – 22 July 2009) was a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character "Captain Pugwash". Ryan was born in Edinburgh. He expressed his love of writing and drawing early in life, creating his first book, "Adventures of Tommy Brown", at the age of 7. Ryan attended Ampleforth College, a Catholic boarding school. After serving as an officer with the Lincolnshire Regiment in Burma during the Second World War, Ryan studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Whilst teaching art at Harrow, Ryan first created "Captain Pugwash" as a comic