It is said that modern Taiwan’s founder Chiang Kai-shek was one of the first heads of state to get mesmerised by the baby-faced journalist. The island has been one of the few countries Hergé visited, even though none of his adventures mentioned the geopolitically sensitive T word in any of the 24 books of the gung-ho fictional character with his trademark quiff. Even though the Belgian cartoonist’s magnum opus series ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ has been translated into around 100 languages and more than 300 million copies have been sold across the globe since its creation 94 years ago, the globe-trotting reporter has some unique connections with, of all places on Earth, Taiwan. May 22 was the birthday of arguably one of the world’s most beloved cartoonists of all time, Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, who mesmerised readers across the globe with his iconic creation of Tintin.
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