Cinebook Newsletter 220 - April 2026

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Dear Reader, This April, we bring you another TWO volumes of Blake & Mortimer – The Complete Collection! Two more thick, gorgeous, hardcover collections of most excellent, timeless comics, with heaps of extra material for good measure! Blake & Mortimer was a creation of legendary bande dessinée author and artist Edgar P. Jacobs, a pioneer in Franco-Belgian comics and a master of the ligne claire style who even worked with Tintin’s father Hergé. Born in 1946, the series was packed full of adventure, mystery, and science fiction right from the start. It appealed to a public thirsty for exotic locales and exciting plots, but it was also always anchored in the realities of its time, whether in terms of the scientific advances of the day, or in political and social terms – it’s not by chance that the two British heroes’ very first adventure was another World War, as both the author and his readers still had some demons to exorcise … This tradition of blending modernity and classicism continued throughout Jacobs’s tenure at the head of the series, and endures still long after his death, with the new creative teams – some of them legends in their own rights – staying true to the master’s vision. And as we celebrate this year Blake & Mortimer’s 80th birthday, it’s safe to say that the tradition of readers thoroughly enjoying the series also lives on!! This Complete Collection, with its hardcover and additional material – behind-the-scenes stories, illustrations, sketches, photographs, biographical details, graphic analyses, and more! – is a Cinebook exclusive, and it is our absolute pleasure to bring it to you. Volume 7 is entirely dedicated to the team of Yves Sente and André Juillard, with their two-parter The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, and the sequel The Gondwana Shrine – adventures that span four continents and several million years! As for Volume 8, it contains another two-parter written by Jean Van Hamme this time, The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver, one that Indiana Jones would have relished, followed by another title by Sente and Juillard, The Oath of the Five Lords, a murder mystery revolving around the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the figure of Lawrence of Arabia! April with Cinebook – here’s to 80 more years, by Jove! Blake & Mortimer Yves Sente and André Juillard The Complete Collection 7 This seventh volume of the Complete Collection collects three albums created by the team of Yves Sente and André Juillard. In the two-parter The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, the authors boldly begin to add touches of modernity to the series … Read more Blake & Mortimer Jean Van Hamme, René Sterne, Chantal de Spiegeleer, Antoine Aubin, Etienne Schréder, Yves Sente, and André Juillard The Complete Collection 8 In this eighth volume of the Complete Collection, the next Blake & Mortimer written – in two parts – by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by three different artists, brings the reader along on one of Professor Mortimer’s favourite activities: archaeology … Read more Blake & Mortimer The Complete Collection 7 Blake & Mortimer The Complete Collection 8