Benoît Peeters is a French writer, essayist, professor, screenwriter, comics writer, and critic. He is also an expert on the world of Tintin.
Benoît Peeters in March 2010
Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin,
Benoît Peeters
…He originally wrote this research synthesis as part of his habilitation thesis (defended at the Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2007). Benoît Peeters first met Hergé in 1977 in Brussels, during an interview he conducted with Patrice Hamel for the magazine Minuit. In addition to his thesis on The Castafiore Emerald…
The house in Etterbeek where Hergé was born (33 Rue Philippe Baucq)
Jo, Zette and Jocko in Cœurs Vaillants
Booklet published by the resistance group L'Insoumis, denouncing Georges Remy [sic] as a collaborator. Hergé later admitted that "I hated the Resistance thing ... I knew that for every one of the Resistance's actions, hostages would be arrested and shot."
The Allied liberation of Belgium in September 1944 brought problems for Hergé.