Minor comics by Hergé

[1] Le Sifflet (The Catcall) was a satirical Brussels weekly paper for which Hergé drew seven one-page shorts from December 1928 to May 1929.

The other of those first two American-style strips was The Innocent Little Child's Christmas (French: La Noël du petit enfant sage) which was about a little Belgian boy (who resembles Tintin) and his foolish white terrier (who looks identical to Snowy).

Two pages were published each week from September 17, 1931, to December 31, 1931, in the free Thursday newspaper available at the Brussels department store L'Innovation.

The mesadventures of Jef Debakker was another short-lived series of four pages, about a baker ("De bakker" in Dutch), for Union, a coal seller in Brussels.

Looking at the brief episodes it is easy to tell that Mr. Mops is based on none other than the silent movie star Charlie Chaplin, of whom Hergé was a great admirer.

[3] This short experimental work closely resembles the exploits of Quick & Flupke, though it is not long enough to allow the main character to develop any real depth.

So Tom and Millie set out across the African plains where they encounter lions, a fierce tribe of monkeys, and a camel caravan of Berbers.

The extremely short stories surround the adventures in a fantasy-like world of a boy called Antoine, a girl named Antoinette, their dog Splash, and Dropsy, a parrot.

Though heavily bogged down with advertising it is still a very charming story which is seen as a fore-runner to Hergé's later series Jo, Zette and Jocko.

The series ran to just four strips, which were published in the neutral weekly newspaper L'Ouest from 7 to 29 December 1939, just a few months before the German invasion of Belgium.

The series was halted when Hergé was called up for military service in northern Belgium and posted to an infantry company as a reservist.