Le Petit Vingtième
''Le Petit Vingtième'' (, ''The Little Twentieth'') was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgium, Belgian newspaper ''Le Vingtième Siècle'' ("The Twentieth Century") from 1928 to 1940. The comics series ''The Adventures of Tintin'' first appeared in its pages. History ''Le Vingtième Siècle'' was a Roman Catholic Church, Catholic and Conservatism, conservative newspaper published in Brussels, led by abbot Norbert Wallez. In 1925, 18-year-old Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi), the creator of Tintin, worked there, first as a clerk (position), clerk and, after he fulfilled his conscription, military service, as an illustrator for the main pages and for some supplement (publishing), supplements like the weekly arts pages and the women's section. In 1928, the abbot decided to start a weekly 8-page youth supplement, appearing every Thursday. He called it ''Le Petit Vingtième'' (''The Little Twentieth''). Hergé was named editor-in-chief. In the first issue, appearing on 1 November ...
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