A Belgian comic strip author and cartoonist. Born in Brussels, Georges Remi joined the scouts in 1921, which gave him the opportunity to publish numerous drawings in scout journals: from 1924 he signed these drawings under a pseudonym, Hergé. At the end of his studies he was hired in the subscription department of a Brussels daily paper, Le Vingtième Siècle (20th century). But his career would take off in 1928 when he was asked to create and illustrate a weekly supplement for the young: Le Petit Vingtième (The little twentieth). Tintin and Milou, Hergé’s emblematic characters, appeared in it for the first time on January 10, 1929. The first album of their adventures, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, appeared in the following year. During the war he worked for the daily newspaper, Le Soir, which caused him difficulties at the time of the liberation, the Brussels newspaper having been in the pay of the occupying forces. After the war, Hergé launched another weekly journal for the young, The Tintin Journal, in which all the adventures of Hergé’s young hero were published. He founded the Studios Hergé in 1950, which would become a breeding ground for the fledgling talents of Belgo-French comic strips.