Tintin in America America"). The dog Snowy was given a diminished role in "Tintin in America", which contained the last instance in the "Adventures" in which Tintin and Snowy have a conversation where they are able to understand each other. In the banquet scene, a reference is made to a famous actress named Mary Pikefort, an allusion to the real-life actress Mary Pickford. That same scene also featured a prototype for the character of Rastapopoulos, who was properly introduced in the following "Cigars of the Pharaoh" story. The strip's serialisation coincided with the publication of another of Hergé's comics set in the United
The Adventures of Tintin in a special Tintin livery. Tintin has become a symbol of Belgium and so was used in a variety of visual responses to the 2016 Brussels bombings. Following are the twenty-four canonical "Tintin" comic albums, with their English titles. Publication dates are for the original French-language versions. The following are double albums with a continuing story arc: Hergé attempted and then abandoned "Le Thermozéro" (1958). Outside the "Tintin" series, a 48-page comic album supervised by (but not written by) Hergé, "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks", was released in 1972; it was based on the film . Books News articles