Interested in all was happening at the time, Herge collected a ventury's worth of mythic and historic imagery.

Through his illustrative art and narrative science, he gabe the European comic strip its badge of hornor.

1907: Georges Remi was born in Brussels, Belgium, May22.

1920:The young boy begins his studies at the College Saint-Boniface in Brussels, he is bored to tears.

1921: He joins the scout troop at his high school, where he receives the nickname "Curious Fox". His first drawings appear in

Jamais assez, his school scouting magazine, and starting in 1923 in Le Boy-scout belge, the monthly magazine of the Belgian

Boy Scouts.

1924: From this point onwards, Georges Remi signed his drawings with the name Herge, reversing his initials, "R.G."(as

pronounced in French).

1925: After leaving school, Georges Remi is hired by the newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle as an employee in the subscription

department.

1926: He creates Totor( a precursor to Tintin), Patrol Leader of Les Hannetons in Le Boy-scout belge.

1927: Georges Remi performs his military service.

1928:When he returns to Brussels, Herge is named chief editor of Le Petit Vintieme, the weekly children supplement to Le

Vingtieme Siecle. The first issue is published on November 1.

1929:Tintin ans Snowy "born" on January 10, in Le Petit Vingtieme.

1930:He creates Quick and Flupke, the rascals of Brussels, who will appear in short stories in Le Petit Vingtieme. The first

Tintin book is published: Tintin, Reporter, in the Land of the Soviets.

1932: Georges Remi marries Germaine Kieckens, secretary of the editor of Le Vingtieme Siecle.

1934: Casterman Publishing House, based in Toumai, Belgium, becomes the publisher of the Adventures of Tintin.

A meeting with a young Chinese student, Chang Chong-Chen, marks a decisive tuming point.

Herge becomes convinced of the importance of a soundly built storyline and of the necessity for thorough research and

preparation.

He begins to take seriously what was, until then, just a simple game.

1935: For the French weekly Coeurs Vaillants, Herge creates a new cast of heroes, Jo, Zette, and Jocko, for the French weekly

Coeurs Vaillants. Five books are

published.

1939: As a result of the position taken by Herge in favor of the Chinese people in The Blue Lotus, Tintin's creator is

invited to China by the wife of Chiang Kai-Shek. The imminent war in Europe prevents the trip.

1940: On May 10, Belguim is invaded by German Troops. The newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle as well as Le Petit Vingtieme

disappear. Tintin in the Land of Black Gold, the episode in progress, is suspended for eight years. Herge begins another

adventure. The Crab with the Golden Claws, which he publishes in Le Soir, one of the only newspapers authorised during the

German occupation.

1942: Casterman Publishing House, are planning to publish standardised books containing 64 pages in full colour, askes Herge

to start adapting previous episodes to fit these new guidelines.

1944: The liberation of Belguim on September 3 ends, the publication of the Adventures of Tintin in Le Soir. Some consider

that by publishing in a newspaper controlled by the German occupation, Herge has in fact "collaborated" with it.

1945: He continues the crucial work on his first books. They will be published one after the other according to the new

guidelines.

1946:On September 26, the first issue of Tintin Magazine is published . It is a new weekly publication created for young

people by Raymond Leblanc, a fighter in the French Resistance.

1950: Having undertaken Explorers on the Moon, an episode requiring careful technical work as well as great documentary

precision and extreme attention to detail, Herge enlists a number of collaborators and founds the Studios Herge.

1955: Tintin, whose stories are gaining more and more success, is popular enough to be of interest to advertisers. At the

same time, Herge developes a collection of colour prints in which Tintin plays spokesman for different fields of knowledge.

1958:Tintin in Tibet is completed despite Herge's personal crisis.

1960: Tintin goes to the movies. Belgian actor Jean-Pierre Talbot plays him on the big screen in Tintin and the Mystery of

the Golden Fleece. The actor will reappear in 1964 in Tintin and the Blue Oringes. Georges Remi discovers modern art, and it

becomes for him a source of true passion. He separates from his wife.

1969: The Studios Belcision of Brussels produce a full-length screen cartoon based on the book Prisoners of the Sun.

1971: On his first visit to the United States, Herge meets some native Americans.

1973: Casteman publishes the first volume of the Herge Archives. Thus the mythical Tintin Reporter of Le Petit Vingtieme in

the Land of the Soviets reappears more than 40 years after it had become unavailable. Heige visits Taiwan, 35 years after the

offical invitation extended to him.

1976: The full-length documentary film 1, Tintin, appears on screens. It is dedicated to the hero and his creator. On

September 19, a bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy is inaugruated in Brussels.

1977: Having dicorce his first wife, Herge marries Fanny Vlamynck.

1979: The American Andy Warhol, king of Pop Art, makes a series of 4 portraits of Herge. The anniversary of Tintin is

commemorated a little bit everywhere. The 50 years life of Herge favorite hero is most notably celebrated by a postage stamp

released by the Belgian Post Office, as well as by the Imaginary Tintin Museum and the book Fifty Years of Happy Work, etc.

1981: Herge and Chang Chong-Chen are happily reunited. Chang was the Chinese friend who had inspired The Blue Lotus more than

45 years earlier.

1982: To celebrate Herge's 75th birthday, the Belgian Astronomical Society names a recently discovered planet after him.

Planet Herge is located between Mars and Jupiter.

1983: On March 3, Georges Remi ( a.k.a. Herge) dies.