Why Belgium Introduces Fun Passports

Which document are TinTin and Smurfs showing up?

Belgium now issues passports defined by images of its comic strip heroes, from Tintin to the Smurfs.

Belgian passport holders will now be able to flip through the pages of their new document and see some of their most beloved fictional characters.

It includes Lucky Luke and Blake and Mortimer alongside Hergé’s famous boy reporter and the blue Smurfs that have long been popular amongst children all over the world.

Most of the images on the new passport are taken from the classic comic strips, such as Tintin’s “Explorers on the Moon”.

It was first published in 1954 and, according to the Tintin website, the comic strip characters chosen to be included in the new passport pages are linked to the theme of travel.

Illustration shows the moon rocket of “Les Adventures de Tintin — De avonturen van Kuifje” by Hergé on a page in the new Belgian international passport.

History.

An original cover of Tintin was sold in the auction in 2019.

Tintin's original cover art was bought at auction for more than $1 million in 2019.

The first original cover art featuring beloved comic character Tintin from “The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1.