Edgar P. Jacobs
Birth name	Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs
Born	March 30, 1904 Brussels, Belgium
Died	February 20, 1987 (aged 82)
Nationality	Belgian
Area(s)	artist, writer, colourist
Notable works	Blake and Mortimer
Awards	full list

Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, (b. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is 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 Events 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a Dowry payment Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Blake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and Comics artist Edgar P March 30, 1904, d. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on February 20, 1987), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Events 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a Dowry payment Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator (writer and artist), born in Brussels, Belgium. 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. Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is He was one of the founding fathers of the European comics movement, through his collaborations with Hergé and the graphic novel series that made him famous, Blake and Mortimer. European comics is a generalized terms for comics produced in Continental Europe. Georges Prosper Remi ( May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983) better known by the Pen name Hergé, was a Belgian A Blake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and Comics artist Edgar P

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 Awards 4 Sources 5 External links

Biography

Edgar Pierre Jacobs was born in Brussels in 1904. Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is ^[1] Jacobs remembered having drawn for as far back as his memory would go. His real love though was for the dramatic arts and the opera in particular. In 1919 he graduated from the commercial school where his parents had sent him, and privately swore he would never work in an office. He kept on drawing in his spare time, focusing his greatest attention on musical and dramatic training. He took on odd jobs at the opera, including decoration, scenography, and painting, and sometimes got to work as an extra. Scenography is the practice of making Theatre including sets costumes and texts from a theoretical and practical point of view An extra is a Performer in a Film, Television show, stage musical opera or ballet production who appears in a nonspeaking nonsinging or nondancing capacity ^[1] In 1929 he received the annual Belgian government medal for excellence in classical singing. Financial good fortune did not follow, since the Great Depression hit the Brussels artistic community very hard.

After a career as extra and baritone singer in opera productions between 1919 and 1940 in Brussels and [Lille]], punctuated by small drawing commissions, Jacobs turned permanently to illustration, drawing commercial illustrations and collaborating in the Bravo review until 1946, after he was introduced there by Jacques Laudy. This article is related to a series of articles under the main article Voice type. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is An illustration is a visualization such as a Drawing, Painting, Photograph or other work of Art that stresses subject more than Bravo is the largest Teen magazine within the German-language sphere Blake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and Comics artist Edgar P ^[2] This review or periodical was a smashing success, hitting a circulation of 300,000 at times.

When the American comic strip Flash Gordon was prohibited in Belgium by the German forces of occupation during World War II, he was asked to write an end to the comic in order to provide a denouement to the readers. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the 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 Flash Gordon is the hero of a Science fiction adventure Comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a hostile army. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In Literature, a dénouement ( IPA:/deˈnuːmɑ̃/ consists of a series of events that follow the climax of a drama or narrative and thus serves as the German censorship banned this continuation after only a couple of weeks. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor Jacobs subsequently published in Bravo his first comic strip, Le Rayon U (The U Ray), largely in the same Flash Gordon style. Le Rayon U ( The U Ray) is a Comic book written and drawn by the Belgian comics creator Edgar P ^[2]

Around this time, he became a stage painter for a theatre adaptation for Hergé's Cigars of the Pharaoh. Georges Prosper Remi ( May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983) better known by the Pen name Hergé, was a Belgian Cigars of the Pharaoh ( Les Cigares du pharaon) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated Although the play was only a modest success, it brought him into contact with Hergé and the two quickly become friends. As a direct result, he assisted Hergé in the recasting of his earlier albums Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in America, King Ottokar's Sceptre and The Blue Lotus for book publication. Tintin in the Congo ( Tintin au Congo) is the second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated Tintin in America ( Tintin en Amérique) is the third in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated King Ottokar's Sceptre ( French: Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip The Blue Lotus ( Le Lotus bleu) first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip After the project, he continued to contribute directly in the drawing as well as the storyline for the new Tintin double-albums The Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure and The Seven Crystal Balls/Prisoners of the Sun. The Secret of the Unicorn ( Le Secret de la Licorne) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written Red Rackham's Treasure ( French: Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is the twelfth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series The Seven Crystal Balls ( Les Sept boules de cristal) is the thirteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums Prisoners of the Sun is the fourteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Belgian writer and Jacobs, as a fan of opera, decided to take Hergé with him to a concert. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Hergé did not like opera, however, and for decades he would gently lampoon his friend Jacobs through the device of Bianca Castafiore, a minor character and opera singer in The Adventures of Tintin. Bianca Castafiore, the Milanese Nightingale, was a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin: the Opera diva first appeared in 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 Hergé also gave him tiny cameo roles in Tintin adventures, sometimes under the name Jacobini, for example in The Calculus Affair where Jacobini is the name of an opera singer advertised as starring alongside La Castafiore in Gounod's Faust, and as a mummified egyptologist on the cover of Cigars of the Pharaoh, as well as in the rewritten version. The Calculus Affair ( French: L'Affaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic Biography Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father Faust or Faustus ( Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky" is the protagonist of a classic German Legend in which he makes

In 1946, he was part of the team gathered around the new comics magazine Le Journal de Tintin, where his story Le secret de l’Espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish) was published on September 26, the first of the Blake and Mortimer series. 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 The Secret of The Swordfish was the first story in the Blake and Mortimer comic book series by Edgar P Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Blake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and Comics artist Edgar P ^[3]

In 1947, Jacobs asked to share the credit with Hergé on The Adventures of Tintin. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. When Hergé refused, their collaboration suffered a bit of a setback. Hergé still remained a friend however, and as before Blake et Mortimer continued to be serialised in Tintin magazine. In 1950, Jacobs published The Mystery of the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid of Giza, also called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu, and Pyramid of Cheops, is the oldest and largest of the three Many others soon followed. Jacobs finally published in 1970 the first volume of The Three formulas of Professor Sato, which was staged in Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

In 1973 he restyled his first full-length album, Le Rayon U, and wrote his autobiography under the tile Un opéra de papier: Les mémoires de Blake et Mortimer. He then wrote the scenario for the second episode of Les Trois Formules du Professeur Sato, but the artwork remained unfinished at the time of his death. Bob de Moor was drafted in to complete the album, which was published in 1990. Bob de Moor is the Pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor ( Antwerp, December 20, 1925 - Brussels, August 26,

Jacobs had not one but two stone sphinxes to commemorate him. A Sphinx is a Zoomorphic mythological figure which is depicted as a recumbent lion with a human head One of them is in the Bois des Pauvres near Brussels, where his home used to stand, and the other one is over his tomb at the Lasne cemetery, also near Brussels. The cemetery sphinx has a "collar" beard, and his face looks a lot like Philip Mortimer, the protagonist of most of the Jacobs albums.

Jacobs’ style and consistency, his plotting talent and his care in character building vary greatly from one album to another. There are however many common threads, such as the theme of subterranean descent and the consistent Ligne claire drawing style. Ligne claire ( French for "clear line" is a style of Drawing pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian creator of The Adventures

Bibliography

1. Le Rayon U (The U Ray), in 1943
2. Le Secret de l'Espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish), in 1947 (3 volumes)
3. Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide, (The Mystery of the Great Pyramid), in 1950 (2 volumes)
4. La Marque Jaune (The Yellow 'M'), in 1953
5. L'Énigme de l'Atlantide (Atlantis Mystery), in 1955
6. S. Le Rayon U ( The U Ray) is a Comic book written and drawn by the Belgian comics creator Edgar P Atlantis Mystery ( l'Enigme de l'Atlantide) by the Belgian artist Edgar P O. S. Météores: Mortimer à Paris (S. O. S. Meteors), in 1958
7. Le Piège diabolique (The Time Trap) in 1960
8. L'Affaire du Collier (The Necklace Affair) in 1965
9. Les trois Formules du Professeur Sato: Mortimer à Tokyo (The Three formulas of Professor Sato) in 1970 (vol. 1; vol. 2 Mortimer versus Mortimer completed by Bob De Moor, 1990)

Awards

• 1971: Grand Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium^[4]

Sources

Footnotes

External links

• E.P. Jacobs 2004 centenary memorial site (French)
• Blake et Mortimer official site on Dargaud (French)
• Edgar Pierre Jacobs biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia

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