Tintin turns 80 this week, and the BBC has this to say:

The 1938 album L'Ile Noire (The Black Island), which takes its inspiration from The Thirty-Nine Steps, is, for many the Tintin's coming of age. It is this album that refines his trademark thrill-a-minute adventure format, and saw Herge perfect his clear-line style, which proved a major influence upon Andy Warhol and the pop artists. Arguably L'Ile Noire is to Herge what Macbeth is to Shakespeare.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7820247.stm

I loved reading these comics as a kid.

(Hat tip to Ozone for his previous post on Tintin's tartan.)

Anywho, here's to you, Tintin!