Herg

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Hergé
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• Date of Birth
• 22th May 1907, Brussels, Belgium Date of Death
• 3rd March 1983, Brussels, Belgium (pulmonary
  failure) Birth Name
• Georges Prosper Remi

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• Born under the name Georges Remi on May 22, 1907
  in Brussels, Belgium. As a child, Hergé had a
  gift for drawing but never had any formal
  training in the visual arts. He attended both
  school and the boy scouts during the World War I
  and post-World War I Era. After he finished
  school Hergé published his first cartoon "The
  Adventures of Totor" for the Boy-Scout Belge (a
  scouting magazine).

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• 1928, he became in charge of the producing
  material for Le Petit Vingtieme (The Little
  Twentieth) a youth supplement newspaper. He began
  illustrating "The Adventures of Flup", "Nenesse",
  "Poussette", "Cochonnet. On January 10, 1929,
  Hergé introduced a cartoon about a traveling
  Belgium reporter (Tintin) accompanied by his fox
  terrier (Snowy) traveling the Soviet Union. By
  1930, Hergé published the very first Tintin book
  "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets". Tintin soon
  became Herge's "ligne Claire" (French for clear
  line) legacy.

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• The later adventures of Tintin involved other
  locations of the world from China all the way to
  America. Within the next 50 years Tintin became
  one of the most popular European comics of the
  20th Century, due to its well-researched plots,
  appealing characters, humor, political thrillers,
  real world settings. After completing 23 books,
  Hergé passed away on March 3, 1983, leaving
  "Tintin the Alpha-Art" (The 24th book)
  unfinished. Despite Hergé not being able to give
  his Tintin series the proper end, all of his
  works along with Tintin will continue to inspire
  artists and enchant readers from the years to
  come.