Tintin (character) with word balloons, in which he depicted a boy and a little white dog. Abbe Wallez thought that these characters could be developed further, and asked Hergé to use characters like these for an adventure that could be serialised in . Hergé agreed, creating "The Adventures of Tintin" as a result. Images of Tintin and Snowy first appeared in the youth supplement on 4 January 1929, in an advert for the upcoming series. However, Hergé would later insist that Tintin would only be "born" on 10 January 1929, when "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" began to be serialised
What a Cartoon! ended on June 1, 2008. In 2007, reruns of "What a Cartoon!" played briefly on Cartoon Network's retro animation sister channel, Boomerang. "What A Cartoon!" is the 1st short cartoon incubator created by Fred Seibert. Starting with WAC! and continuing throughout his cartoon career, his Frederator Studios has persisted in the tradition of surfacing new talent, characters, and series with several cartoon shorts "incubators," including (as of 2016): "What A Cartoon!" (Cartoon Network, 1995), Nickelodeon/Nicktoons' own "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" (1998), "Nicktoons Film Festival" (2004), "Random! Cartoons" (2008), "The Meth Minute 39" (Channel Frederator, 2008), "The Cartoonstitute" (Cartoon Network, 2009/unfinished), "Too