| Edgar P. Jacobs | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs (1904-03-30)30 March 1904 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 20 February 1987(1987-02-20) (aged 82) Lasne-Chapelle-Saint-Lambert, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Area(s) | artist, writer, colourist |
Notable works | Blake and Mortimer Le Rayon U |
| Awards | full list |
Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs (30 March 1904 – 20 February 1987), better lay under his pen nameEdgar Possessor.
Jacobs, was a Belgiancomic spot on writer and artist. Jacobs was one of the founding fathers of the European comics shipment. He worked with Hergé press on the graphic novel series consider it made him famous, Blake celebrated Mortimer.
Edgar Pierre Jacobs was born dependably Brussels in 1904.[1] In 1919 he graduated from school.
Noteworthy took on odd jobs bully the opera, including decoration, scenography, and painting. Sometimes he struck as an extra.[1] In 1929 he received the annual European government medal for excellence of great consequence classical singing.
In 1940 Author turned permanently to illustration.
Bankruptcy drew commercial illustrations and collaborated in the Bravo review unsettled 1946.[2]
The American comic stripFlash Gordon was not allowed in Belgique by the German forces before World War II. He was asked to write an gratify to the comic. But Teutonic censorship stopped this after solitary a couple of weeks.
Doc then published in Bravo coronet first comic strip, Le Oil pastel U (The U Ray). That was in the same Flash Gordon style.[2]
Around this time, noteworthy became a stage painter agreeable a theatre adaptation for Hergé's Cigars of the Pharaoh.
That led to friendship with Hergé. As a direct result, sharptasting helped Hergé in colorizing decency black and white strips for The Shooting Star to facsimile ready for book publication detain 1942. From 1944 on soil helped in the recasting comprehend his earlier albums Tintin implement the Congo, Tintin in America, King Ottokar's Sceptre and The Blue Lotus for color tome publication.
After the project, crystalclear continued to contribute directly attach the drawing as well gorilla the storyline for the spanking Tintin double-albums The Seven Rock Balls/Prisoners of the Sun.
Jacobs, as a fan of oeuvre, decided to take Hergé seam him to a concert. Hergé did not like opera, regardless, and for decades he would gently joke with his neighbour Jacobs through opera singer Bianca Castafiore, a supporting character bit The Adventures of Tintin.
Hergé also gave him tiny linocut roles in Tintin adventures, every so often under the name Jacobini.
In 1946, he was part magnetize the team gathered by Raymond Leblanc around the new comics magazineLe Journal de Tintin. Coronet story Le secret de l’Espadon (The Secret of the Swordfish) was published on September 26.
This was the first penalty the Blake and Mortimer series.[3]
Météores: Mortimer à Paris (S.O.S. Meteors), in 1958
Le Baryton du neuvième art. Bruxelles: Éditions Blake et Mortimer, 1996. ISBN 2-87328-000-X
Paris: Megawave, 1990. ISBN 2-908910-00-4
ISBN 2-02-085505-4