The yellow Mark
the yellow Mark is an album of Cartoon of the series Blake and Mortimer created by Edgar P. Jacobs.
the yellow Mark was initially published in the newspaper of Tintin in weekly boards like the other adventures of Blake and Mortimer then in the form of album in 1956. It was the subject of a Disc 33 turns then of a radiophonic serial on France Inter, published since in sound album as well as setting in cartoons.
Synopsis
The England is stripped of its treasures, of which Gainsborough of the National Gallery and the royal crown. These daring exploits are signed of a “M” yellow. Then these are removals of which it will have to be discovered the raison d'être so that this bond leads to the brain of the business while a being equipped with superhuman capacities makes tremble the town of London and is laughed at its police force.
Places
The action proceeds almost exclusively with London with a flashback in Egypt. Turn of London
Comments
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the Yellow Mark is regarded as the album emblématique of the series.
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mythology jacobsienne is such as it is in this album that authors of the first two albums written and drawn after the death of Edgar P. Jacobs: the Business Francis Blake and the Machination Voronov will come to draw the majority of their references.
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It is in this album that one sees for the first time the Professor and the Captain in Centaur Club and that one discovers the apartment which they divide in Park Lane.
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the intrigue rather skilful Miss in way science fiction with a police history.
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Opening on a panoramic dolly work is cinematographic of Jacobs. Taken night sights, misty environments, underground continuations with the associated plays of lights show an extraordinary control of the setting in scene. The soundtrack is it even formidably present.
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the signature of the Yellow Mark resembles the letter M, but it is about the Greek letter " Mu" , which symbolizes the wave méga. When it describes this signature, Jacobs speaks besides about " sign fatidique" or of " mark jaune" and not of letter Mr.
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the " Mu" with which the Yellow Mark signs its fixed prices is an explicit reference to the film M curses it Fritz Lang. On one of the labels indeed, Blake discovers with surprised the drawing of a " Mu" on the back of its impermeable, obvious resumption of the scene of film where a gangster marks of a " M" the back of the overcoat of the murderer to indicate it with his prosecutors.
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work contains an unhappy error of chronology. When the Professor Septimus explains to Mortimer how Yellow Marque was born the , he tells him to have written " The Mega" wave; in the Twenties. That it then met colonel Olrik wandering in the desert a few years later and that it brought back it to London to the beginning of the second world war (justifying the construction of the shelter anti Luftwaffe) thus in the Forties. One is thus front even the attack flash which starts the third world war (see the Secrecy of the Swordfish ). However this last conflict is started by the Emperor Basam-Damdu whose colonel Olrik is the close adviser. It is only later on in the business of the Pyramids that envouté Olrik from there will be wandered in the Egyptian desert with beginning of the year 50 (within sight of the vehicles and planes in service)… Obviously it could not be there more than 10 years more early.
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This album worship will inspire by very many parodies and is the subject also of homages or winks in the albums of other authors by the presence of references which are drawn there. Thus the copy of the sequence on the Lathe of London per G Chaillet in its album " Sortiléges" adventures of Vasco which proceed in the middle of XIVième century.
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the cover of the album is one of most known amateurs of Franco-Belgian data base and is very regularly pastichée (the Cat, Roger Bismuth, the red mark, the Eyeglass, the pink mark, Cubitus,…)
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One still finds some specimens of the book The Mega Wave in the secondhand booksellers as a box testifies some to the Appointment of Sevenoaks.
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work is worked starting from sketch and of contemporary photographs of the action what gives him its completely realistic aspect. Nevertheless the overhead travelling crane supporting the crane of Limehouse is not in England but in Belgium.
Cinema
After having held a long time with the head of the project, the realizer James Huth yields his place to the Spanish realizer Alex of Iglesia to try to give life to the data base on big screen.
Characters
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