Totor

Totor

Totor, Chief Scout of the Hannetons is the first comic strip series written by Hergé who later wrote The Adventures of Tintin. Published monthly from July 1926 to summer 1929 by Le Boy Scout Belge, Totor tells of a Boy Scout called Totor on his adventures as leader of the Hanneton Troop ("hanneton" is French for Cockchafer, a type of beetle, but also the French for "scatterbrain"). The character would play a large part of inspiration for Tintin, and the idea of a Scout was chosen because, firstly it was for a Scouting magazine, and secondly because Hergé had a great love of the movement. The series was drawn with pictures and captions separate, as most comics of that time were.

In 1930 Hergé allowed a comics artist whose pseudonym was Evany (Eugène van Nijverseel) to write Totor on his own, as Hergé was now very busy with his work on Tintin. This second life of the series ran from February to July, 1930 and produced a total of five pages.