Key facts
- Publisher
- Casterman (Belgium)
- First appearance
- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929), The Adventures of Tintin
- Created by
- Hergé
- Full name
- Snowy, (Milou in the original French)
- Species
- Dog ( Wire Fox Terrier )
- Partnerships
- List of main characters
- Supporting character of
- Tintin
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Encyclopedic overview
Snowy (French: Milou [milu]) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Snowy is a white Wire Fox Terrier who is a companion to Tintin, the series' protagonist. Snowy made his debut on 10 January 1929 in the first installment of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, which was serialised in Le Petit Vingtième until May 1930.
Snowy is modeled in part on a Fox Terrier at a café that Hergé used to frequent. Milou, Snowy's original French name, was the nickname of Hergé's first girlfriend.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Snowy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.