What is The Adventures of Tintin?
{{for|the 2011 movie directed by [[Steven Spielberg]]|The Adventures of Tintin (movie)}} '''''The Adventures of Tintin''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Les Aventures de Tintin'''}}) is a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[comic strip]], created by [[Hergé]] (Georges Remi) starting in the late 1920s and into the 1970s. They were originally written and published in [[French language|French]], but have been translated into many languages and are popular around the world. == Plot and characters == The stories center around a young [[reporter]] from [[Belgium]] named Tintin, who travels the world and has many exciting adventures with his [[dog]], a [[white]] [[wire fox terrier]] named Snowy (Milou, in [[French language|French]]) and later (starting with ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' in 1941) his friend, Captain Haddock, a bearded drunk with a temper. Other popular characters include Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) an absent-minded and mostly [[deaf]] (but he insists he's hard of hearing) [[scientist]] and [[inventor]], and Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont), two silly [[detective]]s. == The Books == The stories are a mixture of many different genres, including adventure, [[satire]], and social commentary and changed over time. The first story, ''Tintin in the Land of Soviets'' came out in 1929, and the last fully completed story, ''Tintin and the Picaros'', came out in 1976. Another story, ''Tintin in Alph-Art'', was never officially finished following the death of Hergé in 1983. There have been many unofficial books, but most of those are [[parodies]] or not part of the official series. The books in the official series are: # ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' - (1929-1930) # ''Tintin in the Congo'' - (1930-1931) # ''Tintin in America'' - (1931-1932) # ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' - (1932-1934) # ''The Blue Lotus'' - (1934-1935) # ''The Broken Ear'' - (1935-1937) # ''The Black Island'' - (1937-1938) # ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' - (1938-1939) # ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'' - (1940-1941) # ''The Shoot