An essay by contemporary British artist and writer Tom McCarthy is dedicated to the cult comic book cycle "The Adventures of Tintin." Reading into the texts, heroes and drawings of the Belgian artist Hergé, who came up with a cheerful reporter with a crest in 1929, McCarthy tries to find an answer to the question of what literary fiction is and how contemporary art functions in multiple media. A brilliant investigation of the psychology of creativity in the twentieth century from one of the active art figures of the twenty-first century.