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- Birth nameEdgard Félix Pierre Jacobs
- Edgar-Pierre Jacobs was born on March 30, 1904 in Brussels, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow M and Blake et Mortimer (1997). He was married to Léonie. He died on February 20, 1987 in Lasne, Wallonia, Belgium.
- SpouseLéonie
- Underground locations are prominent in his works.
- He privately swore to never work in an office.
- Jacobs remembered drawing for as far back as his memory would go.
- Jacobs was a big fan of the opera. He took on odd jobs at the opera, including decoration, scenography, and painting, and had a brief career as an extra and baritone singer in opera productions between 1919 and 1940 in Brussels and Lille.
- While he was an artist and illustrator, he was mostly attracted to theatre and dramatic arts.
- Jacobs has two stone sphinxes at Brussels to commemorate him. One of them is in the Bois des Pauvres, where his home used to stand, and the other one is over his tomb at the Lasne cemetery.
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