Edgar Pierre Jacobs

(1904 - 1987, Belgium)

One of the founding fathers of the European comic movement was Edgar Pierre Jacobs. He was a very talented artist who had already produced some albums when he was noticed by Hergé, who immediately hired him to help on the restyling of his Tintin albums. But Jacobs had bigger plans, and started working on his famous 'Blake and Mortimer' series, which were inspired when he drew some 'Flash Gordon' comics in Bravo! magazine. Jacons wanted to make a realistic detective science-fiction comic of his own. Because of its painstaking realism, 'Blake and Mortimer' was a worthy equivalent to the Tintin series from its start. And today, Edgar Pierre Jacobs is reckoned to be at least the equal of Hergé, as well as one of the fathers of modern comics.