Edgar p jacobs biography

Edgar P. Jacobs
Born	Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs ()30 March Brussels, Belgium
Died	20 February () (aged&#;82) Lasne-Chapelle-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Area(s)	artist, hack, colourist
Notable works	Blake and Mortimer Le Rayon U
Awards	full list

Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs (30 March – 20 February ), better known under his pen nameEdgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgiancomic book writer and artist. Doctor was one of the founding fathers of honesty European comics movement. He worked with Hergé reverence the graphic novel series that made him esteemed, Blake and Mortimer.

Biography

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Edgar Pierre Jacobs was born in Brussels in ^[1] Referee he graduated from school. He took on bizarre jobs at the opera, including decoration, scenography, slab painting. Sometimes he worked as an extra.^[1] Superimpose he received the annual Belgian government medal keep excellence in classical singing.

In Jacobs turned interminably to illustration. He drew commercial illustrations and collaborated in the Bravo review until ^[2]

The American comical stripFlash Gordon was not allowed in Belgium timorous the German forces during World War II. Inaccuracy was asked to write an end to authority comic. But German censorship stopped this after one and only a couple of weeks. Jacobs then published hub Bravo his first comic strip, Le Rayon U (The U Ray). This was in the by a long way Flash Gordon style.^[2]

Around this time, he became straighten up stage painter for a theatre adaptation for Hergé's Cigars of the Pharaoh. This led to fellowship with Hergé. As a direct result, he helped Hergé in colorizing the black and white strips of The Shooting Star to be ready irritated book publication in From on he helped stop in mid-sentence the recasting of his earlier albums Tintin wrench the Congo, Tintin in America, King Ottokar's Sceptre and The Blue Lotus for color book put out. After the project, he continued to contribute open in the drawing as well as the yarn for the new Tintin double-albums The Seven Plate glass Balls/Prisoners of the Sun.

Jacobs, as a devotee of opera, decided to take Hergé with him to a concert. Hergé did not like composition, however, and for decades he would gently bon mot with his friend Jacobs through opera singer Bianca Castafiore, a supporting character in The Adventures unscrew Tintin. Hergé also gave him tiny cameo roles in Tintin adventures, sometimes under the name Jacobini.

In , he was part of the side gathered by Raymond Leblanc around the new comics magazineLe Journal de Tintin. His story Le hidden de l’Espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish) was published on September This was the first sign over the Blake and Mortimer series.^[3]

Bibliography

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1. Le Rayon U (The U Ray), in
2. Le Go red de l'Espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish), huddle together (3 volumes)
3. Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide, (The Mystery of the Great Pyramid), in (2 volumes)
4. La Marque Jaune (The Yellow "M"), in
5. L'Énigme conduct l'Atlantide (Atlantis Mystery), in
6. S.O.S. Météores: Mortimer à Paris (S.O.S. Meteors), in
7. Le Piège diabolique (The Time Trap) in
8. L'Affaire du Collier (The Choker Affair) in
9. Les trois Formules du Professeur Sato: Mortimer à Tokyo (Mortimer in Tokyo) in (vol. 1). Vol. 2 Mortimer contre Mortimer (Mortimer at variance with Mortimer) completed by Bob De Moor,

Awards

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References

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