Michel Greg

Friend of Hergé and writer of the 1972 animated film Tintin and the Lake of Sharks.

Michel Greg (Michel Regnier) was a Belgian comics creator and a friend of Hergé. He wrote the 1972 animated film Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, which Hergé merely supervised. The film was later adapted into a traditional comic book drawn by Bob de Moor and others.

Quick Facts

Real name: Michel Regnier
Nationality: Belgian
Famous work: Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
Relation to tintin: Friend of Hergé and writer of the 1972 animated film

Lore & Background

Greg was a Belgian comics creator who wrote Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, a 1972 French-Belgian animated adventure film based on The Adventures of Tintin. The film was directed by Raymond Leblanc. Greg was a friend of Hergé, who supervised the film but did not write it. The film was later adapted into a traditional comic book drawn by Bob de Moor and others, not using still images from the film.

Reader's Guide

Greg's work on Tintin and the Lake of Sharks is the only direct connection to The Adventures of Tintin confirmed by the source. The film features a plot involving stolen pearls, a hidden underwater city, and Calculus's holographic copying machine. Key characters include Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Thompson and Thomson, Bianca Castafiore, and the villain Rastapopoulos. The film ends with Rastapopoulos and his men taken to Klow Prison by Syldavian police, and a party at Calculus's villa where Bianca Castafiore's singing makes Haddock flee.