Snowy (character)
Snowy (French: Milou) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums written and illustrated by Belgian artist Hergé. Snowy is a white Fox Terrier companion to the series' protagonist Tintin, and appears as a central character in all albums. He debuted in the first sequence of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, published in Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929.
Snowy was in part inspired by a Fox Terrier owned by a cafékeeper where Hergé was a regular; the French name is the nickname of Hergé's first girlfriend, although Snowy is male. For the first eight albums Snowy provides a significant amount of commentary aimed at the fourth wall. With the introduction of Captain Haddock in The Crab with the Golden Claws, Snowy's role providing cynical dialog and comedy is downplayed and the role was taken over by Haddock.
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Famous quotes containing the word snowy:
“The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story;
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)