Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome was an English writer of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Born in 1859, he published his first work in 1885, "On Stage and Off", a collection of humorous sketches about the theater. In his lifetime he was also known as a journalist, playwright, and the founder of a magazine called "The Idler". Today he is chiefly remembered as a humorist. His most famous books include "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow", Three Men in a Boat, and its sequel "Three Men on the Bummel." "Three Men in a Boat", written in 1888, recounts the misadventures of three middle-class London-types and one dog trying to have a boating vacation on the Thames. The sequel, published in 1900, reunites the group on a bicycle-tour of Germany. As bizarre as it sounds, his name is not a pseudonym. He died in 1927. (Source: Penguin Books)

Jerome K. Jerome Bloche, hero of a series of bande dessinée thrillers by Dodier. A young private detective, about halfway between Philip Marlowe (the Bogart incarnation) and Monsieur Hulot aged twenty-something.

Series titles:

• L'Ombre qui Tue
• Les Êtres de Papiers
• A la Vie a la Mort
• Passé Recomposé
• Le Jeu de Trois
• Un Oiseau pour le Chat
• Le Vagabond des Dunes
• L'Absent
• Un Bébé en Cavale
• Le Coeur à Droite
• Le Gabion
• Le Pacte
• Un Fauve en Cage
• La Comtesse

Series list cribbed from www.bdnet.com

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The K in the real Jerome K. Jerome's name stands for Klapka; supposedly he was named after an exiled Bulgarian general who was a friend of his father; this may, however, have been a made-up story.