'Aṣā-yi Salṭanatī (Tan'tan 8): Persian 1403

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge the pen name of Georges Remi (1907 1983). The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtieme, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, Herge's Tintin series remains a favorite of readers and critics 80 years later. The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. From the beginning, he is aided in his adventures by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical, and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol), and other colorful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont). Herge features several of the comics as a background character; as do his assistants in some instances. The series' success saw the serialized strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine, and adapted for film and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date. The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Herge's signature ligne Claire style. Engaging, well-researched plots straddle a variety of swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humor, accompanied in later albums by sophisticated satire, and political and cultural commentary.