This resin figurine of Snowy wearing a doggy astronaut's space suit is part of a series of beautiful statuettes, designed and manufactured with a keen attention to the original detail in Hergé's drawings. The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (19071983), who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By the time of the centenary of Hergé's birth in 2007, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies.