The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herg?, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herg?, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin 'his only rival'.[...]

(Cigars of the Pharaoh). On the trail of desperate drug smugglers and unscrupulous gun runners, Tintin traverses the Orient from the sands of Arabia to the jungle and mountain passes of India.[...]