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Hergé is a prominent national hero in his native country, to the extent where he has been described as the actual " personification of Belgium ".

The long-awaited Hergé Museum was opened in Louvain-La-Neuve on 2 June 2009.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work which has, until now, been sitting in studios and bank vaults.

His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.

He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.