Interested in all was happening at the time, Hergé collected a century's worth of mythic and historic imagery. Through his illustrative art and narrative science, he gave the European comic strip its badge of honor.

1907

Georges Rémi was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, May 22.

1920

The young boy begins his studies at the Collège 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 Rémi signed his drawings with the name Hergé, reversing his initials, "R.G." (as pronounced in French).

1925

After leaving school, Georges Rémi is hired by the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle 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.

Non ce n'est pas Tintin. C'est Totor créé en 1926 par Hergé.

Couverture du "Petit Vingtième"

Quick et Flupke (courverture de 1930)

1927

Georges Rémi performs his military service.

1928

When he returns to Brussels, Hergé is named chief editor of Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly children supplement to Le Vingtième Siècle. The first issue is published on November 1.

1929

Tintin and Snowy "born" on January 10, in Le Petit Vingtième.

1930

He creates Quick and Flupke, the rascals of Brussels, who will appear in short stories in Le Petit Vingtième. The first Tintin book is published: Tintin, Reporter, in the Land of The Soviets.

1932

Georges Rémi marries Germaine Kieckens, secretary of the editor of Le Vingtième Siècle.