(from the article `comic strip`) ...more than in England, the market was smothered in the 1930s and `40s by American imports and imitations. An outstanding and hardy domestic product ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/40
(1907-1983) Belgian artist, creator of the boy reporter Tintin, who first appeared in strip-cartoon form as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets 1929-30. ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688