Dupond and Dupont are two of his best friends. You can just differentiate them by their last name. Dupond with a D and Dupont with a T. Their first appearance in Les aventures de Tintin is in 1934 in Les cigares du Pharaon. A black and white strip cartoon. Their names were X33 and X33 bis. [edit]
Casterman published 23 adventures of Tintin. [edit]
Tintin lives with the Capitaine Haddock at Moulinsart since the episode: Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge. The Professeur Tournesol also lives there. [edit]
Tintin lives on 26, rue du Labrador. The town is unknown. [edit]
Some other characters in Les aventures de Tintin:
* Général Alcazar
* Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab
* Bianca Castafiore
* Oliveira da Figuera
* Séraphin Lampion
* Docteur J.W. Müller
* Nestor
* Roberto Rastapopoulos
* Boucherie Sanzot
* Colonel Sponsz
* Piotr Szut
* Tchang
* Allan Thompson [edit]
Five video games were made about Tintin:
* 1994 : Tintin au Tibet on Super Nintendo and Game Boy (2001). Atari (Infogrames)
* 1995 : Tintin au Tibet on Megadrive. Atari (Infogrames)
* 2001 : Tintin Objectif Aventure on Playstation.
* 1996 : Les aventures de Tintin - Le temple du soleil on Super Nintendo. Atari (Infogrames) [edit]
Tintin au Congo was considered as an offensive comic strip due to some characters. But Hergé denied the fact that he created some black characters with strange manners on purpose. [edit]
More than 180 millions of Les adventures de Tintin were sold in 45 languages. [edit]
Hergé created in 1950 Les Studios Hergé with some collaborators helping him on Les aventures de Tintin. [edit]
A journal named Tintin was created in 1949 by Hergé himself. [edit]
Les aventures de Tintin is translated in more than thirty different languages in the whole world. [edit]
In english some characters have a different name. Milou is Snowy, Tryphon Tournesol is Culthbert Calculus and Dupond and Dupont are Thomson and Thompson. [edit]
Some animated cartoons were made in 1959 for the tv.
You can follow The adventures of Tintin like in the comic strip. [edit]
Two movies were made about Tintin in the early 60's.
In 1982 director Steven Spielberg asked Hergé about making a new movie. Hergé agreed but Spielberg finally dropped out the idea. [edit]
Hergé made 24 adventures of Tintin. The last one named Tintin et l'Alph-Art in 1979 is not completed. [edit]
On 01/10 1929, Hergé created the character of Tintin for a magazine named Supplément jeunesse du XXème Siècle. [edit]
The Capitaine Haddock lives in Le château de Moulinsart in Les aventures de Tintin. He got this mansion by his family. [edit]
Nestor works for the Capitaine Haddock in his mansion named Moulinsart. He has bad luck but he is a strong allied. [edit]
Rastapopoulos is the main enemy of Tintin. He always smokes cigars and can always escape from jail... [edit]
La Castafiore is a recuring character in Les aventures de Tintin. She is an opera singer who awfully sings... The Capitaine Haddock hates her whereas she loves him... [edit]
Tintin knows also a cranky professor named Tournesol. He joins Tintin and The Capitaine Haddock in Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge. [edit]
The Capitaine Haddock is a recuring character in Les aventures de Tintin. Archibald Haddock is an alcoholic that Tintin helps to cure. He is also a sailor and navigates to help his best friend Tintin to discover some mysteries... [edit]
Dupont and Dupond (Thomson and Thompson) aren't actually twins, or even related, and their only obvious difference is the shape of their moustaches. [edit]
His dog is named Milou, it's a fox-terrier. Milou is more human than some characters in the comics. [edit]
Tintin is a boy reporter, according to his comic. [edit]
Was written and drawn by Georges Remi, a.k.a. Hergé, a Belgian writer-artist. [edit]
The comics of Tintin were started in 1929, and was widely celebrated in 2004, on its 75th anniversary. [edit]
Hergé in french: "Pour moi, Tintin c'est le héros, Don Quichotte. Il lui fallait un Sancho Pança, c'est Milou." [edit]
Hergé in french: "Lampion existe à des milliers d'exemplaires." [edit]
Hergé in french: "La race des Castafiore n'est certainement pas éteinte." [edit]
Hergé in french: "Je vieillis, et j'essaie de le faire de mon mieux." [edit]
Hergé in french: "Je suis affecté, sincèrement affecté par le spectacle de la misère. Mais je n'ai aucune raison d'avoir mauvaise conscience: ce que je possède, je ne l'ai pas volé." [edit]
Hergé in french: "Je l'ai élevé, protégé, nourri, comme un père élève son enfant. Malgré tout, je crois être assez adulte pour pouvoir me passer d'enfant adoptif; je n'en ai pas besoin, me semble-t-il!..." [edit]
Hergé in french: "C'est moi, moi sous toutes mes formes! Tintin, c'est moi quand j'aimerais être héroïque, parfait; Les Dupondt, c'est moi quand je suis bête; Haddock, c'est moi quand j'ai besoin de m'extérioriser." [edit]
Hergé in french: "A force de croire en ses rêves, l'homme en fait une réalité." [edit]
Hergé in french: "Pauvre capitaine! il ne se doute évidemment pas qu'à chaque secousse, la corde m'entre davantage dans la chair..." [edit]
Hergé in french: "Les plus grandes aventures sont intérieures" (Biggest adventures are inside) [edit]
Hergé in french: "Le scoutisme m'a donné le goût de l'amitié, l'amour de la nature, des bêtes, des jeux. C'est une bonne école. Tant mieux si Tintin en garde la marque. Elle ne l'empêche pas de vivre avec son temps..." [edit]
