"Tintin is a young man known by the flaxen mop that comes to a point on the top of his bubble head," noted Washington Post columnist Charles Trueheart. "As a cartoon hero, he is as familiar to Europeans as Superman is to Americans, and he shares his pluck and invincibility." For over fifty years cartoonist Georges Remi--better known under his pseudonym of Hergé (pronounced "air-JAY," the French pronunciation of his initials reversed)--chronicled the far-flung adventures of the boy reporter, his trusty dog Milou--or Snowy as it is known in questionable translation--and their companions Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thomson and Thompson. The never-aging Tintin made Hergé "the most influential cartoonist" of the twentieth century, Martin Spence reported in the London Times. Tintin's twenty-four adventures have been translated into over fifty languages, including Chinese, Welsh, Icelandic, Indonesian, Basque, Hebrew, Esperanto, and five Indian...