The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic albums created by
Belgian cartoonist (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name
Hergé. The series was one of the most popular
European comics of the 20th century. By the time of the centenary of Hergé's birth in 2007,
Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies.