- 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.
- Jacobs based Blake and Mortimer on two friends/fellow artists of his, Blake on artist Jacques Laudy and Mortimer on artist/editor Jacques Van Melkebeke. He based their arch-rival Colonel Olrik on himself.
- He met "Tintin" artist Hergé at a stage adaptation of the Tintin comic "Cigars of the Pharoah", on which Jacobs was a stage painter. Both would aid each other in their work throughout their lifetime: Jacobs assisted Herge on Tintin comics, while Jacobs' own comic adventure series "Blake and Mortimer" was closely influenced by Tintin.
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