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
Tintin in the Congo of publication, and the latest Swedish edition of "Tintin in the Congo" appeared in 2005. The South African comics writer Anton Kannemeyer has parodied the perceived racist nature of the book to highlight what he sees as the continuing racist undertones of South African society. In his "Pappa in Afrika" (2010), a satire of "Tintin in the Congo", he portrays Tintin as an Afrikaner with racist views of indigenous Africans. "Tintin in the Congo" shows Tintin taking part in what Michael Farr described as "the wholesale and gratuitous slaughter" of animals; over the course of the "Adventure", Tintin shoots several