Michel Greg

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.

In Their Own Story

In 1972, Greg wrote the screenplay for *Tintin and the Lake of Sharks*, an animated film directed by Raymond Leblanc. The story follows Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock as they visit Professor Calculus in Syldavia, where a criminal organization led by Rastapopoulos (calling himself "King Shark") plots to steal Calculus's invention—a machine that can copy physical objects. The film includes specific moments such as Tintin discovering a hidden cave via a buried chain, Snowy chewing through a wire net to save Tintin from drowning, and Rastapopoulos being captured after his submarine crashes in an underwater tunnel.

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.

Did You Know?

• Greg 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, not using still images from the film.
• Greg was a friend of Hergé and a Belgian comics creator.
• The film's villain is an original character named King Shark, not Rastapopoulos.