In 2006, Ted Benoit (the artist who drew The Francis Blake Affair and The Strange Encounter, both written by Jean Van Hamme) proposed to the editor a synopsis of a new Blake and Mortimer story, which he only wanted to write and not to draw like in his...
Several months ago I devoted an article to one of Walter Minus's tributes to Blake and Mortimer. This artist has recently published through his Facebook page two more tributes to the series, one of them with Blake and Mortimer just as in a panel of the...
On the year 2000, Joann Sfar (script) and Émile Bravo (drawings) presented Dargaud a project to make a Blake and Mortimer adventure. Even though the editor refused it (Dargaud actually asked Bravo to continue the series a few years later after Ted Benoit...
The famous art gallery Daniel Maghen will be organising, from the 30th of April to the 17th of May, an exhibition devoted to Antoine Aubin's work in Blake and Mortimer, both in The Gate of Orpheus and The Septimus Wave. More than 60 inked pages, with...
Some days ago, Yves Schlirf announced through his Twitter account two coming exhibitions of The Septimus Wave (the last Blake and Mortimer album, published in 2013 and signed by Jean Dufaux, Antoine Aubin and Étienne Schréder). The first one will be opened...
Blake and Mortimer's official Facebook page have published a few hours ago two more extracts from the sketch book devoted to André Juillard's work in Blake and Mortimer that will be offered when buying several albums from the series since April the 26th....
The official Facebook account of Blake and Mortimer has just revealed two ex-libris for the new album, The Septimus Wave, but drawn, instead of by Antoine Aubin, by Étienne Schréder, Aubin's inking assistant! It is quite surprising to see the style of...
From this blog, I wish you a very happy and successful new year 2014! In this part of the year, it is typical to send New Year cards to your friends and family. With this purpose, many comic artists, both currently working in the series or not, have drawn...
As you already know, this year will come out the third album of The Adventures of Philip and Francis' series, Blake and Mortimer's official parody created by Pierre Veys (script) and Nicolas Barral (artwork) and published by Dargaud. This editor has gently...
Some days ago, on April the 5th, the art gallery Christie's offered, with the lot 25 of his sale Nº 3615, the original inking made by Antoine Aubin for the cover ot The Septimus Wave (Dufaux/Aubin/Schréder 2013). The estimated price was between 5000 and...
Amazon has recently announced Blake and Mortimer's agenda and calendar for 2015, which will come out on October 3rd 2014. They both feature images from The Secret of the Swordfish: the calendar shows the Swordfish squadron attacking Lhasa, while the agenda...
Yves Schlirf has just published through his Twitter account a dedication made by Théo Van den Boogaard (who, as yo already known, is currently on negotiations with Dargaud for drawing a Blake and Mortimer album) for Étienne Schréder, featuring a rather...
After a first picture revealed some weeks ago, today a post in Yves Schlirf's Twitter account has shown a digital model of the box which will contain the brand-new copies of the standart edition of the new Blake and Mortimer, The Staff of Plutarch, in...
Amazon has revealed the final cover for The Staff of Plutarch, drawn by André Juillard and coloured by Madeleine de Mille. The album will be out on December the 5th. Personally, I think the colours are not bad, but the drawing itself is of a really bad...
Yves Schlirf has revealed today through his Twitter account the title of the new Blake and Mortimer written by Yves Sente and drawn by André Juillard, to be published in December: The Staff of Plutarch! This title (which I have translated into English...
The production process of the upcoming Blake and Mortimer, The Will of William S., is carrying on on, apparently, full speed. After revealing just a few days ago a handful of newly inked strips and the 3rd page of the album as colored by Madeleine de...
Before starting out with the news itself, I would like to share an announcement made a few days ago by Fred Schwamberger, marketing director of Dargaud, following one of my questions: there will not be a Blake and Mortimer album published in 2015. I invite...
Tomorrow is the day that all Blake and Mortimer fans have been awaiting for more than a year. The Septimus Wave, the sequel of the ever-famous album The Yellow M made by Jean Dufaux (script), Antoine Aubin (artwork) and Étienne Schréder (inking and 4...
Yves Schlirf has published some hours ago through his Twitter account two cover projects for the integral edition of The Secret of the Swordfish, which will feature the three parts of this first Blake and Mortimer adventure, possibly together with some...
Nicolas Barral has drawn a peculiar ilustration for the publication of S.O.S Météo, the new Philip and Francis adventure coming on September 12th, which was revealed yesterday by Blake and Mortimer's official Facebook page. It shows Mortimer announcing...
Christian, co-administrator of the disappeared and excellent blog Blake, Jacobs et Mortimer (who supported and helped this blog from its very beggining), has published through his Facebook page a wonderful dedication, drawn by Antoine Aubin on his copy...
The Brüsel library, headquertered in the Belgian capital city and who has already witnessed several events related to Blake and Mortimer's universe, has hosted from 5 to 6 in today's afternoon an exclusive ex-libris signing by André Juillard as an attraction...
The art gallery Barbier & Mathon, headquartered in Paris, has announced this week an exhibition devoted to André Juillard's work in The Staff of Plutarch, his new Blake and Mortimer album with a script by Yves Sente. The showing, which will include original...
Blake and Mortimer's official Facebook page has revealed today a cover project for the strip version of The Staff of Plutarch (the new Blake and Mortimer album coming in December) made by André Juillard and with the texts on it. It shows Blake and Mortimer...
Since last Thursday, the newspaper Le Télégramme prepublishes the next Blake and Mortimer album, The Staff of Plutarch, through, apparently, one black and white strip a day, just as Le Soir is doing since April. As a special bonus for the publication...