With the new movie out so recently, I've been hearing a lot about this series lately. Though I had seen the character before, I had never known anything about the comic itself, except that its popularity was mainly in Europe. After reading it, I can see why it's so insanely popular there...and slightly saddened that I didn't have TinTin as a kid.
Unlike many other comics of the time, it seems to have a certain level of intelligence behind it. Despite how simply they are drawn, the characters are smart, and the writer seems to have had a lot of interest and knowledge of other places and cultures. Traveling across the world makes for surprisingly fun and interesting stories, and TinTin makes for a surprisingly strong character. In the comic I read, TinTin travels to Tibet in search of his friend who may have died in a plane crash (surprisingly dark I thought). He's of course with his loyal, if grumpy companion Captain Haddock as well as his dog Snowy. What shocked me most about this story is that I actually learned things about Tibetan culture. Learning! In a comic! Ha! (Seriously, I was crosschecking information with google as I read out of curiosity, and TinTin was fairly accurate with names and customs.) That isn't to say there isn't a fair amount of stereotyping. It's still there to an extent, but in that naive way that saturates most things from that era. The style it's drawn in really sings with me. The characters are cartoony enough to be likable, but realistic enough in shape and body that they can believably exist in this world.
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