Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and the Picaros () is the twenty-third volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The final instalment in the series to be completed by Hergé, in Belgium it was serialized in "Tintin" magazine from September 1975 to April 1976 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1976. The narrative follows the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy and his friends Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus as they travel to the (fictional) South American nation of San Theodoros to rescue their friend Bianca Castafiore, who has been
The Adventures of Tintin 60 Years of Adventure" (1989), "Tintin: The Complete Companion" (2001), "Tintin & Co." (2007) and "The Adventures of Hergé" (2007), while English television producer Harry Thompson authored "Tintin: Hergé and his Creation" (1991). Literary critics, primarily in French-speaking Europe, have also examined "The Adventures of Tintin". In 1984, Jean-Marie Apostolidès published his study of the "Adventures of Tintin" from a more "adult" perspective as "Les Métamorphoses de Tintin", published in English as "The Metamorphoses of Tintin, or Tintin for Adults" in 2010. In reviewing Apostolidès' book, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal of "The New Republic" thought that it was "not for the faint