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Meet Tintin, the plucky young reporter with a quiff as iconic as the Eiffel Tower and a nose for trouble sharper than a detective's intuition. This adventurous Belgian boy has been gallivanting across the globe since 1929, courtesy of his creator, Hergé. Tintin's been to more places than your average travel blogger, faced more villains than a superhero, and never once needed a shave. It's the magic of Belgian cartooning, where the fountain of youth apparently flows in ink.   Image is courtesy of Unsplash.com The Birth of a Belgian Icon: From Pages to Paradigms Tintin was born from the steady hand of Georges Remi , better known by his nom de plume, Hergé. The pen name itself is a clever inversion of his initials, "R.G." His debut came in Le Petit Vingtième , a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle . The first adventure, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929), was as politically charged as a powder keg—a propaganda piece meant to criticize...