Quick & Flupke - Cameos in The Adventures of Tintin

Cameos in The Adventures of Tintin

Quick & Flupke made short appearances in The Adventures of Tintin books:

• They are among the crowd seeing Tintin off in the first panel of Tintin in the Congo, in both the 1931 and 1946 editions.

• In The Shooting Star, Quick and Flupke can be seen running towards the docks as the expedition is about to set off.

• The Seven Crystal Balls features a pair of boys who play a trick on Captain Haddock. They are made to look very similar to Quick and Flupke though the resemblance is minor given that the event takes place in La Rochelle in France and not an inland city in Belgium.

• Quick & Flupke also appear on the back cover of some book editions of the Adventures of Tintin: they are about to fire a slingshot at Captain Haddock and/or his bottle of whisky.

When Tintin's adventures were first published in 1929 and the early 1930s, Le Petit Vingtième often put on publicity stunts with young boys dressed and made-up to look like Tintin returning to Brussels from his journeys abroad. One such stunt occurred on the 9 July 1931 when 14-year-old Henri Dendoncker dressed in African safari gear and played the part to mark Tintin's return from the Congo. Other boys appeared as Quick & Flupke.