Captain Haddock, Tintin's loyal companion, turns 80 - La Prensa Latina Media
2 minutes read Javier Albisu Brussels, Jan 9 (efe-epa).- The grumpy Captain Haddock, that drunken sailor wearing a blue sweater with a big heart and known for his eccentric repetitive phrases in Hergé’s cartoons, is celebrating 80 years since he met Tintin, the intrepid journalist with whom he became an inseparable travel companion since January 1941. “He needed a drunken ship captain. I made many sketches to try to find this character and I always started off by making him look drunk, like someone who really drank a lot,” said the Belgian author Georges Remi (1907-1983), universally...
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