![]() ![]() But when Edgar Jacobs took up comics, he was turning forty. Both men had to consider working under the Nazis and both are founding fathers of the European "ninth art". Also like Tintin's author, he endured not one but two German occupations. ![]() Like Georges "Hergé" Remi, with whom he collaborated, Jacobs hailed from Brussels. Now it's brought them back as stars of a Paris show, Scientifiction, the Musée des arts et des métiers (Museum of Crafts and Technologies).īlake and Mortimer came from the pen of Edgar Pierre Jacobs (Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, 1904-1987). The pair's real weapon is a scientific curiosity so powerful it foresaw the Apple Watch and the hologram. Ingenious and staunchly British, a secret agent and a physicist, they save the world from mad scientists, evil empires and apocalypse. Jacobs Do To Comics?Ĭynthia Rose | SeptemFrame from Le Piège diabolique (1960-1961), Scientifiction, Musée des arts et métiers/CNAM, all rights reservedįrancis Blake and Philip Mortimer first showed up in 1946, in Tintin magazine.
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