Les Amis des Jacobs Publications in Q3 2015

The association Les Amis des Jacobs, an association dedicated to the art of Edgar P. Jacobs, will publish this year the seventeenth number of the eponymous magazine, and the second volume of Les Contes et Illustrations de Edgar Jacobs. 

The former will include a cover featuring a beautiful sketch from The Time Trap, a study of the journeys made in The Yellow "M" by Eric Simon, an interview with François Riviére, Jacov's secrets and sources, and a lot more sure to delight any fan of the Belgian master,

The second volume of Les Contes will continue the publication of several illustrations made by Jacobs early in his carrer.

You can see scans from both publications here.

B&M Publications in 2015

Although there will be no new Blake & Mortimer albums this year, Dargaud has already confirmed that two books based on the franchise will be published this year: Juillard 329 Dessins (Juillard 329 Drawings), a sketchbook similar to Jacobs 329 Dessins, and a single volume reedition of Professor Sato's Three Formulae, with original storyboards included, are coming out this christmas.

It has also become obvious that B&M #24, which comes out in 2016, will be a Sente & Juillard, the latter being already working on the album.

Fromental and Bocquet are to write Blake & Mortimer

Dargaud has revealed that Jean-Luc Fromental and José-Louis Bocquet are going to write for the Blake & Mortimer series. The pair has worked together on a graphic novel about Hergé's life, although it is not known if they will work together or separatedly. Below you can see Fromental to the left and Bocquet to the right.

BeauxArts will have a B&M special in July

The french magazine BeauxArts, dedicated to plastic arts in general, will launch a special issue dedicated to Blake & Mortimer adventures relating to humanity's greatest mysteries. This special issue will arrive on July, have 120 pages (of which 24 pages will be dedicated to "the secrets of the series' creation"), and cost 8,90€. Below you can see its cover:

Olrik by CollectorBD: A figurine based on The Voronov Plot

CollectorBD continues creating figurines basen on the B&M universe. This time they've created a statuette in resin of Olrik in a military uniform, as drawn by André Juillard in The Voronov Plot. It costs 850€ and is available in two versions, one in gray (limited to 20 copies) and the other in vertigris (limited to 75 copies). You can see the statuette from different angles here: