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I know! And the smart, pragmatic, exasperated persona of the dog Snowy, who constantly had to put up with the distractibility of all the fidgety human beings around him.
I remember a sequence of panels in one of the books — I don’t recall which one — it’s one where they are all on a boat either coming into a harbor or steaming out of one. In this sequence every panel shows pretty much the same characters (I only recall Captain Haddock, but have a feeling there were others too) on a ship’s deck, with shadowy grays and whites and beiges on the ship, against a dark bluish gray background of sky and water. And even though those backgrounds didn’t change much, and the palette of colors not at all, the artist managed to show a tremendous amount of action through the changing position of, and lighting on, the human figures. And at the same time, the occasional use of bits of bright yellows or reds gave the impact of sound, so even now I recall it as a late dusk scene punctuated by the hoots & whistles of ships in the distance. Amazing work.