Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock)

Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring captain in the Merchant Navy or Merchant Marine, who was introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws. Haddock was initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character, but in later albums he became more respectable and genuinely heroic (notably in the seminal Tintin in Tibet, where he soberly volunteers his life to save his friend). Although when introduced Haddock has command of a freighter, in later volumes he is clearly retired. The Captain's coarse humanity and sarcasm acts as a counterpoint to Tintin's often implausible heroism; he is always quick with a dry comment whenever the boy reporter gets too idealistic. Captain Haddock, detail of a panel from the book The Seven Crystal Balls by Hergé, 1948 Fair use under US law. ... Captain Haddock, detail of a panel from the book The Seven Crystal Balls by Hergé, 1948 Fair use under US law. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin), (Bande dessinée) drawn and written by the Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi a. ... In most seafaring countries, the merchant marine (or merchant navy) is a fleet of ships used for commerce that sometimes complements the navy. ... The Crab with the Golden Claws (originally Le Crabe aux Pinces dOr) is a one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... The French bookcover Tintin in Tibet (originally Tintin au Tibet) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin as the hero. ...

Haddock uses all sorts of words as insults and curses to express his feelings, such as "blistering barnacles", "thundering typhoons", "bashi-bazouk", "kleptomaniac", "anacoluthon", and "pockmark", but no words that are actually considered swear words (see list of exclamations used by Captain Haddock). Haddock is a hard drinker, especially of whisky of the Loch Lomond brand, and his bouts of drunkenness are often used for comic effect. Superorders A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters. ... A bashi-bazouk (in Turkish başıbozuk, meaning disorganized, leaderless) was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. ... Kleptomania (word of Greek origin) is an obsession with stealing. ... An anacoluthon is a rhetorical device that can be loosely defined as a change of syntax within a sentence. ... pockmark-often referred to the scars on face of a person. ... Profanity is a word choice or usage which many consider to be offensive. ... The comic book series featuring the reporter Tintin, by the Belgian artist Herge, is one of the most popular cartoon creations of the 20th Century, with as many as 100 million Tintin books in print. ... Whisky (or whiskey) is the name for a broad category of alcoholic beverages distilled from grains, that are subsequently aged in oak casks. ... Loch Lomond Loch Lomond (pronounced LOW-mond) (Scottish Gaelic Loch Laomainn) is a Scottish loch located in both the western lowlands of Central Scotland and the southern Highlands. ...

A story goes that Haddock's creator, the artist Hergé, was inspired to choose the surname "Haddock" by his wife making the remark that the haddock was a "sad English fish". Haddock remained without a first name until the last completed story, Tintin and the Picaros (1976), when the name Archibald was suggested. At the conclusion of Red Rackham's Treasure, Haddock purchases his ancestral seat, the castle Marlinspike (Moulinsart), where he, Tintin and Calculus live. Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Binomial name Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Haddock is a marine fish distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic. ... English-language edition Tintin and the Picaros (originally Tintin et les Picaros) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Tintin, Haddock and Snowy entering Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike (originally Moulinsart in the original French-Belgian language) is the country house where Captain Haddock lives in Hergés The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, beginning from Red Rackhams Treasure. ... Tintin and Snowy (Tintin et Milou) are world travellers and inseparable friends in The Adventures of Tintin. ...

Trivia

• Captain Shaddock was a real-life 17th century English sea captain who worked for the East India Company. It was Shaddock who introduced the pomelo (a citrus fruit) to the West Indies, and to this day a 'shaddock' is an alternative name for a pomelo (and sometimes even for a grapefruit). It is not known whether Hergé was aware of Shaddock's existence.

• In the French adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto's anime Captain Harlock, the main character (Harlock) and the anime's title were renamed Albator due to the resemblance between Captain Haddock's and Captain Harlock's names.

• Captain Haddock is an unlikely member of the SSS - The Society for Sober Sailors