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Blake and Mortimer
(Les Aventures de Blake et Mortimer)

Publisher Tintin (magazine)
Publication date 1946–
Main character(s) Blake
Mortimer
Olrik
Creative team
Writer(s) Edgar P. Jacobs
Jean Van Hamme
Yves Sente
Artist(s) Edgar P. Jacobs
Bob de Moor
Ted Benoît
André Juillard
Creator(s) Edgar P. Jacobs

Blake and Mortimer is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. Le journal de Tintin (in its French-speaking version Kuifje ( Dutch-speaking version was a weekly Belgian comics magazine Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( March 30, 1904 - February 20, 1987) better known under his Pen name Edgar P Jean Van Hamme (born January 16, 1939) is a Belgian Novelist and scenario Writer of Comic books He has written scenarios Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( March 30, 1904 - February 20, 1987) better known under his Pen name Edgar P Bob de Moor is the Pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor ( Antwerp, December 20, 1925 - Brussels, August 26, Ted Benoît (born 1947 was a prominent figure in the Ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s André Juillard (born June 9, 1948) is a French Comic book creator. Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( March 30, 1904 - February 20, 1987) better known under his Pen name Edgar P Franco-Belgian comics are Comics that are created in Belgium and France. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those A comic book creator is any one of a number of people working to create a Comic book or Graphic novel. A comics artist is an Artist working within the Comics medium on Comic strips Comic books or Graphic novels The term may refer to Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( March 30, 1904 - February 20, 1987) better known under his Pen name Edgar P It first appeared serialised in the Belgian comics magazine Tintin from 1946, and subsequently became published in softcover and hardcover albums by Les Editions du Lombard. Belgium and France have a long tradition in Comics. They have a common history for comics (see Franco-Belgian comics) and magazines Le journal de Tintin (in its French-speaking version Kuifje ( Dutch-speaking version was a weekly Belgian comics magazine Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Le Lombard or Lombard Editions is a Belgian Comic book publisher established in 1946 when the Tintin magazine

Contents

Publication history

Present at the launch of Tintin magazine (or Le journal de Tintin) the story, Le secret de l’Espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish) was published on September 26, 1946. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a [1] It paradoxically proved more popular than The Adventures of Tintin, appearing also in a serial form in the same magazine. The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin is a series of Comic strips created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi This may in part be due to the fact that the Swordfish series started with the first issue of Tintin, while The Adventures of Tintin in the first issue confusingly resumed The Seven Crystal Balls, a story in progress abandoned two years earlier during the war, when it had been serialised in a newspaper. The Seven Crystal Balls ( Les Sept boules de cristal) is the thirteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums

After Jacobs’ death, Bob de Moor completed Jacobs’ unfinished last story; the series was subsequently continued by two Jacobs Studios writing and drawing teams, Van Hamme/Benoit and Sente/Juillard. Bob de Moor is the Pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor ( Antwerp, December 20, 1925 - Brussels, August 26, Jean Van Hamme (born January 16, 1939) is a Belgian Novelist and scenario Writer of Comic books He has written scenarios Ted Benoît (born 1947 was a prominent figure in the Ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s André Juillard (born June 9, 1948) is a French Comic book creator.

Blake and Mortimer was adapted into an animated television series, Blake and Mortimer. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Blake and Mortimer is an Animated Television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comic book by Edgar Pierre Jacobs.

Main characters

Olrik
Olrik

The three main characters were already present in slightly different form in the unrelated, Flash Gordon-alike first full length comic strip by Jacobs, Le Rayon U (The 'U'-Ray, 1943), where they appeared as Professor Marduk, Lord Calder, and Captain Dagon, respectively. Flash Gordon is the hero of a Science fiction adventure Comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Le Rayon U ( The U Ray) is a Comic book written and drawn by the Belgian comics creator Edgar P Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. (The story furnished many elements for L'Énigme de l'Atlantide as well. )

Philip Mortimer was originally drawn from life. The model was a friend and sometimes collaborator of Jacobs, Jacques Van Melkebeke. Jacques Van Melkebeke (1904-1983 was a Belgian Journalist, writer and scenario writer of Comic strips Friend of Hergé, he took part in There was one imaginative addition by Jacobs since Van Melkebeke had no beard. Francis Blake was modeled by another friend and sometimes collaborator of Jacobs, Jacques Laudy, with added mustache. Olrik was a self-portrait of Jacobs.

Story characteristics

Although the series is (no doubt for reasons of euphony) called Blake and Mortimer, it is Professor Mortimer who is the main protagonist. The Protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. Especially in the original series, it is mainly he who, through his impulsive character, gets entangled in adventurous circumstances. Blake is the straight man, the serious army officer who comes to the rescue. If there are to be humorous passages in a story, they will happen to Mortimer. On the bad side, Colonel Olrik combines both good guys' characteristics into one.

Blake and Mortimer are sometimes shown to live in the same house, sharing an apartment as unmarried gentlemen would want to do. The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or "gens" and "man" Cognate with the French word gentilhomme The post-Jacobs title Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent finally tells us how the two met and became friends: in colonial India, where Mortimer grew up. This article is about a type of political territory For other uses see Colony (disambiguation. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Here they met as young adults.

Jacobs always drew his stories as being contemporary, and so the first few titles have a 1950s look and feel while the last installment looks decidedly 1970s. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The sole exception to this rule is, again, Le Piège diabolique, which starts in the present but whose action, due to a malfunctioning time machine, largely takes place in the 51st century preceded by a short venture in medieval times and a stopover in the Jurassic period. This article details time travel itself For other uses see Time Traveler. The sixth millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 5001 and will end on December 31, 6000 The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Ma (million years ago to  Ma that is from the end of the Triassic to the beginning

The layout in most of the stories included some similarities: when the story begins certain important but unseen events have already taken place: at the beginning of La Marque jaune, for instance, the titular character has already made himself known through various activities which the reader only learns about when Mortimer reads a newspaper about these events.

Some of the adventures also ended with the characters reflecting on what they have learned from their experiences: after his travels through time in Le Piège diabolique, Mortimer concludes that rather than dwell on the "good old days" or look forward to a "bright future", one should be content with the present.

The post-Jacobs volumes until now have all placed their adventures in the late Fifties-early Sixties period and so have a nostalgic retro feel. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past often in idealized form Retro is a term used to describe denote or classify culturally outdated or aged trends modes or fashions from the overall postmodern past but have since that time become functionally All stories are based around mild action and thriller plots with bits of (progressively less fantastic) science fiction thrown in. The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television.

Blake and Mortimer post-Jacobs

From 1987, the Jacobs estate, centred around the still-going Jacobs Studios, republished all of Jacobs’s works. An estate is the Net worth of a person at any point in time It is the sum of a person's Assets - legal rights interests and entitlements to Property of In the 1990's, after much debate about story authenticity, Dargaud got permission to revive the Blake and Mortimer series with a set of new stories by a new team of author/draughtsman. Les Éditions Dargaud is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series Famous scenarist Jean Van Hamme provided the storylines while Ligne claire specialist draughtsman Ted Benoit (whose style resembles the later Jacobs's) was contracted for the artwork. Jean Van Hamme (born January 16, 1939) is a Belgian Novelist and scenario Writer of Comic books He has written scenarios Ligne claire ( French for "clear line" is a style of Drawing pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian creator of The Adventures Ted Benoît (born 1947 was a prominent figure in the Ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s

1996 saw the publication of The Francis Blake Affair. Purists immediately objected to the choice of Van Hamme and, upon publication, went on to discover some typical Van Hamme plot twists they disliked. However the book became a relative success and the publisher decided to continue the line. In the meantime however both Benoit and Van Hamme were tied up on other projects and work on the next book started to lag. As an interim solution, writer Yves Sente and artist André Juillard were contacted to publish the second new Blake and Mortimer: The Voronow Plot (1998). André Juillard (born June 9, 1948) is a French Comic book creator.

Finally, Van Hamme and Benoit managed to finish their album and The Strange Encounter appeared in 2001.

This was followed by Sente and Juillard's two-book adventure: The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent (volume 1,The Universal Threat in 2003; volume 2,Battle of the Minds in 2004) — which actually deal with Blake and Mortimer's youth.

Blake et Mortimer mural in Brussels
Blake et Mortimer mural in Brussels

Volumes published in the Blake and Mortimer series

Writers’ credits:
1-11: story and images by Edgar P. Jacobs
12: story by Edgar P. Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, ( March 30, 1904 - February 20, 1987) better known under his Pen name Edgar P Jacobs, images by Bob de Moor
13, 15: story by Jean Van Hamme, images by Ted Benoit
14, 16-17, 19: story by Yves Sente, images by André Juillard
18: story by Jean Van Hamme, images by René Sterne

  1. 1950 - Le Secret de l'Espadon, Tome 1 (The Secret of The Swordfish Volume 1: Ruthless Pursuit) ISBN 2-87097-002-1
  2. 1953 - Le Secret de l'Espadon, Tome 2 (The Secret of The Swordfish Volume 2: Mortimer's Escape) ISBN 2-87097-004-8
  3. 1953 - Le Secret de l'Espadon, Tome 3 (The Secret of The Swordfish Volume 3: SX1 Counterattacks) ISBN 2-87097-005-6
  4. 1954 - Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide, Tome 1 (The Mystery of the Great Pyramid, Volume 1: Manetho's Papyrus) ISBN 2-87097-008-0
  5. 1955 - Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide, Tome 2 (The Mystery of the Great Pyramid Volume 2: The Chamber of Horus) ISBN 2-87097-009-9
  6. 1956 - La Marque Jaune (The Yellow "M") ISBN 2-87097-010-2
  7. 1957 - L'Énigme de l'Atlantide (Atlantis Mystery) ISBN 2-87097-013-7
  8. 1959 - S. Bob de Moor is the Pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor ( Antwerp, December 20, 1925 - Brussels, August 26, Jean Van Hamme (born January 16, 1939) is a Belgian Novelist and scenario Writer of Comic books He has written scenarios Ted Benoît (born 1947 was a prominent figure in the Ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s André Juillard (born June 9, 1948) is a French Comic book creator. Jean Van Hamme (born January 16, 1939) is a Belgian Novelist and scenario Writer of Comic books He has written scenarios Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Secret of The Swordfish was the first story in the Blake and Mortimer comic book series by Edgar P Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Secret of The Swordfish was the first story in the Blake and Mortimer comic book series by Edgar P Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Secret of The Swordfish was the first story in the Blake and Mortimer comic book series by Edgar P Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) The Mystery of the Great Pyramid Volume 1 Manetho's Papyrus (Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide Tome 1 by the Belgian artist Edgar P Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The Mystery of the Great Pyramid Volume 2 The Chamber of Horus ( Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide Tome 2) by the Belgian artist Edgar P Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Yellow "M" ( La Marque Jaune) by the Belgian artist Edgar P Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Atlantis Mystery ( l'Enigme de l'Atlantide) by the Belgian artist Edgar P The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. O. S. Météores: Mortimer à Paris (S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris) ISBN 2-87097-015-3
  9. 1962 - Le Piège diabolique (The Time Trap) ISBN 2-87097-020-X
  10. 1967 - L'Affaire du Collier (The Necklace Affair) ISBN 2-87097-025-0
  11. 1971 - Les trois Formules du Professeur Sato, Tome 1: Mortimer à Tokyo (Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 1: Mortimer in Tokyo) ISBN 2-87097-016-1
  12. 1990 - Les trois Formules du Professeur Sato, Tome 2: Mortimer contre Mortimer (Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer) ISBN 2-87097-017-X
  13. 1996 - L'Affaire Francis Blake (The Francis Blake Affair) ISBN 2-87097-051-X
  14. 2000 - La Machination Voronov (The Voronov Plot) ISBN 2-87097-057-9
  15. 2001 - L'Étrange Rendez-Vous (The Strange Encounter) ISBN 2-87097-059-5
  16. 2003 - Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent, Tome 1: La Menace universelle (The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Volume 1: The Universal Threat) ISBN 2-87097-066-8
  17. 2004 - Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent, Tome 2: Le Duel des Esprits (The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Volume 2: Battle of the Minds) ISBN 2-87097-068-4
  18. 2008 - Le sanctuaire du Gondwana (The Gondwana Shrine)[2][3][4]
  19. 2009 - La malédiction des trente deniers (The Curse of the Thirty Denarii) Not yet released[5][6]

ISBNs given are of the latest French language editions as issued by Les Éditions Blake et Mortimer in Brussels. SOS Meteors Mortimer in Paris is the eighth comic book in the Blake and Mortimer series by Edgar P Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Time Trap (Le Piège diabolique by the Belgian artist Edgar P Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The Necklace Affair (L'Affaire du Collier by the Belgian artist Edgar P Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Professor Sató's 3 Formulae Volume 1 Mortimer in Tokyo is the eleventh book in the Blake and Mortimer series Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Professor Sató's 3 Formulae Volume 2 Mortimer vs Mortimer was the twelfth book in the Blake and Mortimer series Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The Francis Blake Affair was the thirteenth Blake and Mortimer book and the first one not to be written by Edgar P 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The Voronov Plot is the fourteenth book in the Blake and Mortimer comic book series Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The Strange Encounter is the fifteenth Blake and Mortimer book in the series Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent Volume 1 The Universal Threat is the sixteenth Blake and Mortimer book in the series "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent Volume 2 Battle of the Minds is the seventeenth Blake and Mortimer book in the series 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common This article is about the year For the film see 2009 Lost Memories. The Curse of the Thirty Denarii is the nineteenth Blake and Mortimer book in the series French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people In Printmaking, an edition is a number of prints struck from one plate usually at the same point in time Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is Le Rayon «U», in many ways a precursor of the series, has been re-issued as "Volume 0" (ISBN 2-87097-023-4). Additionally, the storyboard sketches by Jacobs of Volume 12, left incomplete at the time of his death, have been re-issued in 1996 outside of the series as Dossier Mortimer contre Mortimer (ISBN 2-87097-022-6). Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

Volumes published in English

English translation The Yellow '"M"
English translation The Yellow '"M"

Like many Franco-Belgian comics, Blake and Mortimer has had limited publication in English.

Les Editions Blake and Mortimer published English translations of all three parts of The Secret of the Swordfish in 1986, both parts of The Mystery of the Great Pyramid in 1987 and The Yellow "M" in 1988.

In 1989, Catalan Communications, under its 'Comcat' line of books, planned to publish the books in inexpensive trade paperback copies in the US. Catalan Communications was a New York Publishing company operated by Bernd Metz which mainly focused on English-language translations of European They released:

  1. The Time Trap (based on Le Piège diabolique)
  2. Atlantis Mystery (based on L'Énigme de l'Atlantide)

There were also plans to release Secret of the Great Pyramid in 2 volumes, and then The Yellow Mark, but the company went under before they could get a chance to realize them.

In January 2007 Cinebook Ltd published The Yellow "M" in paperback, as the first in a set of English language volumes. Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes Comic books and Graphic novels. The first part of The Mystery of the Great Pyramid was released in November 2007, and the second part in January 2008. The Francis Blake Affair is to follow in September, 2008.

Parodies

Caricatures of Blake and Mortimer often appear in other comic book series as background or supporting characters, usually when the plot includes a British Empire storyline.

A good example is another popular Belgian comic creation concerning the adventures of a British MI5 agent Colonel Clifton. Clifton is a Franco-Belgian comics series in the humorous spy-genre featuring the exploits of Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton Clifton once featured in a story entitled Jade, published in 2003. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. In it he meets two characters called Blake and Mortimer, though even as caricatures they bear little resemblance (perhaps deliberately) to Jacob's originals. The story included elements from the original books, such as the secret passage from S. O. S. Météores and the cave that doubles as a submarine base in L'Affaire Francis Blake. A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability [7]

In 2005 Dargaud published a parody entitled Menaces sur l'Empire ("The Empire Under Threat"). Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Les Éditions Dargaud is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series This was a humorous presentation of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer and was certainly not part of the canon (in fact, the space reserved for the series' title reads "The Adventures of Philip and Francis" as opposed to "Blake and Mortimer"). This article is not about Literary canons of influential works of fiction but about the concept of a canon which defines the world of a particular fictional series Jokes included:

Television Series

Main article Blake and Mortimer (TV series)

In 1997, the company Ellipse made an animated series containing 26 episodes, which made up 13 stories, 4 of which were entirely new and not based on existing books. Blake and Mortimer is an Animated Television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comic book by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Ellipse Programmé (also known as Le Studio Ellipse, or simply Ellipse) is a French Animation studio that produces Television programs

Film Adaptations

Several attempts have been made to make films of The Yellow M, though none have been successful.

Sources

Footnotes
  1. ^ BDoubliées. Tintin année 1946 (French).
  2. ^ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_et_Mortimer
  3. ^ www. krinein. com/bd/aventures-blake-mortimer-6336. html
  4. ^ www. bdgest. com/forum/bdgest/Bande-Dessinee-Franco-Belge/prochaine-blake-mortimer-sujet-39598-1. htm
  5. ^ Sterne et Van Hamme nous parlent de Blake & Mortimer - Actua BD: l'actualité de la bande dessinée
  6. ^ Décès brutal de René Sterne, le créateur d’Adler - Actua BD: l'actualité de la bande dessinée
  7. ^ Jade ISBN 2-80361-669-6, by Bob de Groot (writer) and Michel Rodrigue (artist), published in 2003
  8. ^ Menaces sur l'Empire ISBN 2-205-05457-0, by Pierre Veys (writer) and Nicolas Barral (artist)), published in 2005

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