The character of Tintin was partly inspired by Georges's brother Paul Remi, an officer in the Belgian army.

The Tintin book, The Castafiore Emerald, contains settings, plots, comic devices and character types that share many similarities to screwball comedies.

South African singer / songwriter Gert Vlok Nel compares Tintin to God in his Afrikaans song " Waarom ek roep na jou vanaand ", presumably because Tintin is a morally pure character.

Scottish singer and actor Jimmy Somerville, as early as 1982, sported a new " look " with very short cut hair, and a kuifje (" small tuft " in Dutch ) up-front, in a deliberate move to resemble Tintin character.

In lighter media, a few stars of the comic industry made their debut, including Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, who would appear in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages.

* Used indiscriminately as an insult by Captain Haddock, a character in The Adventures of Tintin.

* Nestor ( Tintin character ), from The Adventures of Tintin series of comic books by Hergé

* Snowy ( character ) ( Milou in French ), fictional character of Les Aventures de Tintin comic strip series

The only woman character of importance is Bianca Castafiore, who is portrayed to be foolish and nearly oblivious to all negative reactions to her behaviour – though she does show loyalty, presence of mind and quick wit when hiding Tintin and Haddock from Colonel Sponsz in The Calculus Affair.

* Lambik is the name given by Willy Vandersteen to a Belgian character in the comic strip Spike and Suzy ( Suske en Wiske in Dutch ) which appeared in Tintin magazine.

As a token of appreciation, Hergé added the character " Chang Chong-Chen " ( Tchang in original French-language version ) to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese orphan boy who meets and befriends Tintin.

Bianca Castafiore, the " Milanese Nightingale ", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of classic Belgian comic books written and illustrated by Hergé.

The " Bianca Castafioreplein ", a tiny square along Verversstraat in Amsterdam named for the fictional opera singer Bianca Castafiore, a character in the comic books The Adventures of Tintin.

Castafiore invariably sings her signature aria in Hergé's books, in the 2011 Spielberg / Jackson film The Adventures of Tintin, the character ( voiced by soprano Renée Fleming ) presents a different aria, " Je veux vivre ..." from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.

Movie critic Dana Stevens states " With the possible exception of the title character, the animated cast of Tintin narrowly escapes entrapment in the so-called ' uncanny valley.

* Pablo ( Tintin character ), a recurring character in the adventures of Tintin

Tintinologists such as Thompson, Michael Farr and Pierre Assouline have noted the strong influence that the character of Totor would have on Tintin, with Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier stating that " Graphically, Totor was virtually identical to Tintin in every respect, except for his scout uniform.

Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).

It was here, in 1929, that he began serialising the first of the Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.

The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries (" Europe ") while their underhanded rivals were Americans ( although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship ; see the image on the The Shooting Star page ), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called " Jewish features.

In a scene which appeared when the story was being serialised in Le Soir, two Jews, depicted in classic anti-Semitic caricature, are shown watching Philippulus harassing Tintin.

He was publicly accused of being a Nazi / Rexist sympathizer, a claim which was largely unfounded, as the Tintin adventures published during the war were scrupulously free of politics ( the only dubious point occurring in The Shooting Star, discussed above ).

Foremost among these was artist Bob de Moor, who collaborated with Hergé on the remaining Tintin adventures, filling in details and backgrounds such as the spectacular lunar landscapes in Explorers on the Moon.

In 1961 the second Tintin film was made: Tintin and the Golden Fleece, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin ( an earlier stop motion-animated film was made in 1947 called The Crab with the Golden Claws, but it was screened publicly only once ).

Following his expressed desire not to have Tintin handled by another artist, it was published posthumously as a set of sketches and notes in 1986.

In 1988 the Tintin magazine was discontinued.

; The Franco-Belgian comics: The Comic strip The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular 20th century European comics, was created in 1929 by Hergé.

It was recreated for the video games Spy Hunter ( 2001 ), King's Quest V, Lego Indiana Jones, Sonic Unleashed and Civilization V and appeared in the novels Left Behind, Appointment with Death, The Eagle in the Sand and The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series.

The gargantuan complex is last seen at the end of Explorers on the Moon, and is never again seen in the Tintin series.

Tintin attempts to return it, but the hotel he claimed to be staying at has never heard of him, and when Tintin calls a phone number found in his wallet, the man refuses to talk to him.

" Hergé never denied this, and described Tintin as being like Totor's younger brother.

* When Tintin meets Alcazar at the port and Chiquito on board the ship, the three men act as if the meeting at the theatre in The Seven Crystal Balls had never taken place.

In this and other early stories like The Blue Lotus and The Black Island, they would spend most of their time pursuing Tintin himself for crimes he had not committed-although on both occasions they were forced to follow official orders and faked evidence, the two noting in Blue Lotus that they never believed in Tintin's guilt even if they had to obey their orders, although they later reconciled with him and became firm allies in subsequent stories.

An early version of De Generaal was sold to Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin but was never published.

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

Borduria is depicted in King Ottokar's Sceptre and The Calculus Affair, and is referred to in Tintin and the Picaros.

The Bordurian military of this period is depicted as technologically inept — unable to stop a stolen tank commandeered by Tintin and his companions as a result of defective mines and anti-tank guns.

In Tintin post-war stories it's depicted as a typical Eastern Bloc country.

Most of the population seems to be humble and poor, as depicted in Tintin and the Picaros.

* The Mukden Incident is depicted in the Tintin book The Blue Lotus, although the book places the bombing near Shanghai.

For Castafiore, this seems sharply at odds with all her other appearances in the Tintin series, where she is depicted as one of the world's leading operatic divas ; not a music hall variety act.

In the 1954 Tintin comic book Explorers on the Moon, a drunken Captain Haddock almost becomes a satellite of the asteroid, which is improbably depicted passing between the Earth and the Moon.

This style is depicted in the Tintin comic-strip album The Blue Lotus.