Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian comics writer and artist Georges Remi better known by his pen name Hergé. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin is a series of Comic strips created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating Georges Prosper Remi ( May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983) better known by the Pen name Hergé, was a Belgian A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity Georges Prosper Remi ( May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983) better known by the Pen name Hergé, was a Belgian He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring captain in the Merchant Navy or Merchant Marine. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names Tintin et Milou) a journalist and his canine companion are a pair of adventurers who travel around the Haddock was initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character, but in later albums he became more respectable and genuinely heroic although he continues to drink whiskey(notably in the pivotal Tintin in Tibet, in which he stoically volunteers his life to save his friend). Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions Tintin in Tibet ( Tintin au Tibet) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Although when introduced Haddock has command of a freighter, in later volumes he is clearly retired. Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely The Captain's coarse humanity and sarcasm acts as a counterpoint to Tintin's often implausible heroism; he is always quick with a dry comment whenever the boy reporter gets too idealistic. In Western civilization, Idealism is the philosophy which maintains that the Ultimate nature of reality is ideal or based upon ideas values essences The so-called
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History
Captain Haddock was introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws. The Crab with the Golden Claws ( French: Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is the ninth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series [1] Up until Haddock's introduction, supporting characters would recur with irregularity, and mainly in the background, used more to build continuity than serve as protagonists. Hergé, however, realised Haddock's potential as a foil to Tintin, and established the character as a permanent addition to the cast. This was at the expense of Snowy, whose role was reduced to accommodate Haddock. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names Tintin et Milou) a journalist and his canine companion are a pair of adventurers who travel around the
Haddock was first introduced as the whiskey loving captain of the Karaboudjan, a merchant vessel used by his first mate Allan Thompson without his knowledge for drug smuggling. Due to his alcoholism and tempermental nature, he is characterized as weak and unstable, at times posing as great a hazard to Tintin as the villains of the piece. He is also short-tempered, given to emotional and expletive-ridden outbursts, and capable of infuriating behavior; at one point in the album he even attacks Tintin when, traversing the Moroccan desert, Haddock has the sun-induced delusion that Tintin is a bottle of champagne and tries desperately to pull his head off. The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest Champagne is a Sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle Secondary fermentation of Wine to effect Carbonation. However, Haddock is a sincere figure in need of reform, and by the end of the adventure Tintin has gained a loyal companion, albeit one still given to uttering the occasional 'expletive'. Sobriety is solemn or dignified personal Behaviour, in particular Abstinence with regard to (typically the consumption of Alcoholic beverages or [1]
Hergé also allowed himself more artistic expression through Haddock's features than with Tintin's. Michael Farr, author of Tintin: The Complete Companion notes: "Whereas Hergé kept Tintin's facial expressions to a bare minimum . Michael Farr is a leading British Tintinologist that is an expert on the comic series Tintin and its creator Hergé. . . Haddock's could be contorted with emotion. " Farr goes on to write that "In Haddock, Hergé had come up with his most inspired character since creating Tintin" and sales of the volume in which Haddock was introduced indicated the character was well received. After a fairly serious role in The Shooting Star, where he is shown to have become the President of the Society of Sober Sailors, replete with a cabin full of whisky, Haddock takes a more central role in the next adventure, split over two books, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure - indeed, his family history drives the plot. Upon locating the treasure, the newly wealthy Haddock retires.
Hergé built the adventure around Haddock, furnishing the character with an ancestral home, Marlinspike Hall, or "Moulinsart" in the original French. Marlinspike Hall ( Le château de Moulinsart in the original French - Belgian) is Captain Haddock 's Country house in Harry Thompson, author of Tintin: Hergé and his creation writes that the introduction of this large and luxurious country house was "to provide a suitable ancestral home for Tintin and himself to move into. Harry William Thompson ( February 6, 1960 – November 7, 2005) was a British producer and writer of comedies and a successful novelist and biographer The English country house is generally accepted as a large House or Mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also usually owned another Great " To achieve this in terms of the plot, Hergé also details Haddock's ancestry, something Thompson regards as distinctive: "Haddock is the only regular character whose relatives turn up in the Tintin stories at all (if one discounts Jolyon Wagg and his dreadful family). Jolyon Wagg (in the original French version Séraphin Lampion) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic Comic books "[2]
By the time of their last completed and published adventure, Tintin and the Picaros, Haddock had become such a figure that he dominates much of the first half of the story. Tintin and the Picaros ( Tintin et les Picaros) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated He is especially notable in The Red Sea Sharks, where his skilful captaining of the ship he and Tintin seize from Rastapopulous allows them to survive until they are rescued.
Naming
Haddock's name was suggested to Hergé by his wife, who noted that haddock was a "sad English fish" over a fish dinner. The haddock or offshore hake is a marine Fish distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic. Hergé then utilised the name for the captain he had just introduced. Haddock remained without a first name until the last completed story, Tintin and the Picaros (1976), when the name Archibald was suggested. Tintin and the Picaros ( Tintin et les Picaros) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated As Haddock's role grew, Hergé expanded his character, basing him upon aspects of friends, with his characteristic temper somewhat inspired by Tintin colourist E.P. Jacobs and his bluffness drawn from Bob de Moor. Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( March 30, 1904 - February 20, 1987) better known under his Pen name Edgar P Bob de Moor is the Pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor ( Antwerp, December 20, 1925 - Brussels, August 26, Bionca Castafiore often changed his name around but at the same time keeping the same sounds in it. She did this in the book The Castifiore Emerald. [2] Harry Thompson has commented on how Hergé utilised the character to inject humour into the plot, notably "where Haddock plays the fool to smooth over a lengthy explanation. "[2]
Expletives
At the time of Captain Haddock's introduction to the series in 1940, the character's manners presented a problem to Hergé. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Georges Prosper Remi ( May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983) better known by the Pen name Hergé, was a Belgian As a sailor, Haddock would have had a very colourful vocabulary, but Hergé could not use any swearwords as the series appeared in a children's magazine. Capt. Haddock's charecter is very lovable and can easily be related to real life. His is a more 'near-to-life-character. The solution reportedly came when Hergé recalled a situation he had become embroiled in during 1933, shortly after the Four-Power Pact had come into being. The Four-Power Pact also known as a Quadripartite Agreement (treaty between four states or four commercial parties was an international Treaty initialed on June Hergé tried to intervene in a brawl between a shopkeeper and customer, but before he could, the shopkeeper became so enraged that he lost his composure for a moment and accused his customer of being "a peace treaty". [2] Struck by this use of an "irrelevant insult", Hergé hit upon the solution of the Captain using strange or esoteric words that were not actually offensive, but which he would project with great anger, as if they were very strong cursewords. These words ranged across a variety of subject areas, often relating to specific terms within scientific fields of study. This behaviour would in later years become one of Haddock's defining characteristics.
The idea took form quickly-the first appearance of the Haddockian argot occurred in a scene in The Crab with the Golden Claws where the Captain storms towards a party of Berber raiders yelling expressions like 'jellyfish', 'troglodyte' and 'ectoplasm'. Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. They have several different basic morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the (The Berbers immediately take flight, but as it later transpires, from French Meharistes, North African desert militia, appearing behind the Captain's back. Méhariste is a French word that roughly translates to Camel cavalry. ) This use of colourful insults proved successful and was a mainstay in future books. Mainstay is a melodic rock band from Minneapolis Minnesota. The band was formed in 2003 and is signed to BEC Recordings. Consequently, Hergé actively started collecting difficult or dirty-sounding words for use in Haddock's outbursts, and on occasion even searched dictionaries to come up with inspiration. [2]
On one occasion, this scheme appeared to backfire. In one particularly angry state, Hergé had the captain yell the 'curseword' Pneumothorax (a medical emergency caused by the collapse of the lung within the chest). One week after the scene appeared in Tintin Magazine, Hergé received a letter allegedly from a father whose boy was a great fan of Tintin and also a heavy tuberculosis sufferer who had experienced a collapsed lung. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common According to the letter, the boy was devastated that his favourite comic made fun of his own condition. Hergé wrote an apology and removed the word from the comic. Afterwards it turned out that the letter was a fake written and planted by Hergé's friend and collaborator Jacques Van Melkebeke. Jacques Van Melkebeke (1904-1983 was a Belgian Journalist, writer and scenario writer of Comic strips Friend of Hergé, he took part in [2][1]
In addition to his many insults, the most famous of Haddock's expressions relate to any of a number of permutations of two phrases: "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!" ("Mille millions de mille milliards de mille sabords!") and "Ten thousand thundering typhoons!" ("Tonnerre de Brest!"). A barnacle is a type of Arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence distantly related to A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and numerous Thunderstorms that produce strong winds and Flooding Haddock uses these two expressions to such an extent that Abdullah actually addresses him as 'Blistering Barnacles'. Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab and Abdullah ( Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab et Abdallah) are characters from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic Comic books
Émile Brami, biographer of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, claimed in a 2004 interview with the French book magazine Lire that Hergé took his inspiration from Céline's antisemitic pamphlet Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937) to create some of Haddock's expressions, as some of them ("aztec", "coconut", "iconoclast", "platypus") appeared explicitly in Céline's book. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the Pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (27 May 1894 &ndash 1 July 1961 In total Captain Haddock has said at least 192 expressions which are all repertoried in a book, the "Dictionary of Captain Haddock's insults".
Portrayals
Andy Serkis has been confirmed for the role of Captain Haddock in the upcoming Tintin film series. Andy Serkis (born 20 April, 1964) is an English Actor, director and Author. Tintin is an upcoming Motion capture 3-D film based The Adventures of Tintin, a series of Comic books created by
Notes and references
- ^ a b c Michael Farr Tintin: The Complete Companion, John Murray (2001) ISBN 0-7195-5522-1
- ^ a b c d e f Thompson, Harry (1991). Michael Farr is a leading British Tintinologist that is an expert on the comic series Tintin and its creator Hergé. Harry William Thompson ( February 6, 1960 – November 7, 2005) was a British producer and writer of comedies and a successful novelist and biographer Tintin: Hergé and his creation, First, Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-52393-X.
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