Boy wonder Tintin, voiced in the film by Jamie Bell, has been wildly popular since he debuted in a Belgian comic strip in 1929

Entrance to the new Herge Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

A sticker of Tintin decorates a window of a high-speed Thalys train, in Brussels.

Tintin in a scene from The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.