Georges Remi, known as Hergé (born in Etterbeek, May 22, 1907 - died at Brussels, 3 March 1983) was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for The Adventures of Tintin and Snowy. Herge is a family of Belgian francophone middle class and lives in Brussels. His four years of primary school coincide with the First World War (1914-1918), in the city then occupied by the Germans. Little George is already showing a great capacity for drawing: the margins of his books are filled with adventures. In 1920, he joined the scout troop's College, where he receives as a totem name Fox curious. " His earliest drawings appeared in Never enough, the journal of college scouting. By 1924, he signed his name of Hergé's illustrations. In 1925, Hergé is committed to the subscription service to the Catholic newspaper The Twentieth Century. In 1926 he created the character Totor and The Adventures of Flup, Nenesse, Stroller and Piglet. In 1929, in the No. 11 Little Twentieth appeared the first episode of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Tintin is a journalist-reporter, always accompanied by his little white dog, a fox terrier named Snowy. Tintin will travel the world for over fifty years. In 1930, two new characters are introduced: Quick and Flupke the two urchins playing in the streets of Brussels. In 1931 completed episodes in the publication of Tintin in the Congo. Then Tintin in America. In 1934, the publisher Casterman began to publish the Tintin albums. The hero, after America, will go to Egypt (Cigars of the Pharaoh), China (Blue Lotus). For Hergé, the cartoon drawing books becomes less and less a hobby, and more and more serious work. Between 1935 and 1940 appeared The Broken Ear (South America), The Black Island (Great Britain), Ottokar's Sceptre (in Ruritania, an imaginary Slavic country). Because of the war only ended in 1947 Herge Tintin in the Land of Black Gold, which began in 1939. Captain Haddock, became an important figure in the adventures of Tintin. The newspaper "Twentieth Century" for which Hergé worked, stopped its publication. Herge was hired by the Belgian daily Le Soir, which is controlled by the occupant. The Adventures of Tintin continue somehow with The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star and then The Secret of the Unicorn and The Red Rackham's Treasure, two volumes of a fantastic treasure hunt conducted with Using a new character, Professor Tournesol. Then came The 7 Crystal Balls (a variant of the curse of the mummy). Continues to work as Herge Tintin in publishing, so it's war, Hergé some accuse of collaboration: he will say he did, like the others, his job. Many political features the adventures of Tintin, and thus many studies have tried to understand the thought and political evolution of the designer. In 1946, Hergé was contacted to create a log. On September 26, 1946 the first issue of the weekly Le Journal de Tintin. Many designers come to the magazine. The continuing adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun (which continues the story of the Seven Crystal Balls), Tintin in the Land of Black Gold. In Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon, Hergé's hero plunges into a universe scientifically rigorous and well documented. With many designers in the team of Herge, Tintin's adventures in moving detective story with espionage in The Affair, adventure in the Red Sea Sharks, then race in the Himalayas in Tintin Tibet. In the 1960s, Tintin became a huge worldwide success. Albums are translated into many languages. Tintin is adapted for the cinema, first with the actors (Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece in 1960, Tintin and the Blue Oranges 1964), then cartoons, such as the Sun Temple in 1969. Other albums come out yet, more and more space: Castafiore Emerald in 1963, Flight 714 and Tintin in 1968 and Picaros in 1976. In 1978, Hergé begins a new episode of Tintin, but in 1980, Georges Remi fell ill and died in Brussels in 1983. Tintin and Alph-Art, will be the last adventure of the reporter. This album seems unfinished in 1986. This page has been adapted or copied in part from the page Georges Prosper Remi Wikipedia, but has since been amended. . . .