Year: 2014

An original cover for Sterke Jan / Conrad Le Hardi, and fear of plagiarism

[caption id="attachment_565" align="alignleft" width="247"] You'll notice that originally the moon was placed behind Sterke Jan holding up the timber after which De Moor moved it to the left.[/caption] In 1950, Karel Van Milleghem, the energetic editor-in-chief of Kuifje, the Flemish (dutch written) version of the Tintin weekly, asked Bob De Moor to adapt the Constant de Kinder novel "De wonderlijke lotgevallen van

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Bob De Moor poster for ‘Tonnerre De Brest, Silence! – L’âge d’or de la BD Belge 1929-1950’ film + Edgar P. Jacobs armed at the cinema

[caption id="attachment_553" align="alignleft" width="237"] Copyright © Hergé / Moulinsart[/caption] Bob De Moor has done more filmposters than the one for Robbe De Hert's "Janssen and Janssens" in 1989. 5 years earlier, in 1984, he made the filmposter for "Tonnerre De Brest, Silence! - L'âge d'or de la BD Belge 1929-1950". The belgian film, directed by Armand Zaninetta and Didier Bastien,

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Bécassine à la Bob De Moor, previously unreleased

Bécassine as Bob De Moor visualized it - Copyright © Family De Moor In 1962 (1963?) Bob De Moor was asked to take over the popular French Bécassine series. Although he completed several test drawings, Hergé objected to Bob De Moor's plan to pursue the series. Eventually, Bob De Moor would decline the offer (pressured by Hergé). This morning Luc De Meulenaere, husband

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Bob De Moor and the anti-smoking campaign sticker

[caption id="attachment_506" align="alignleft" width="209"] The Méhari tobacco campaign - Copyright © Hergé / Moulinsart[/caption] Bob De Moor was a chain smoker, and so was Hergé, so it wasn't really a surprise that in 1977 an advert turned up where Thomson and Thompson were smoking Méhari cigars. Truth be told, Hergé was furious that the agency had added the line 'Le

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Yves Rodier talks about Bob De Moor: ‘His death filled me with sadness’

[caption id="attachment_491" align="alignleft" width="225"] Yves Rodier on the roof of the Le Lombard building in Brussels.[/caption] Yves Rodier (born 5 June 1967) is a Franco-Quebec comic strip author who got widely known for having completed "Tintin and Alph-Art", albeit in a non-official version of course. It never got commercially released but despite that, it must be one of the most

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Fanny Rodwell says NO to new Tintin album

"La veuve d'Hergé sort de l'ombre" - Paris Match 8-14/05/2014 Since Bob De Moor wanted to complete the unfinished "Tintin and Alph-Art" album, but was refused to do so in the end, we thought that this particular newsbit might interest more than just one reader (and that's probably an understatement). Note: It's not the intention to start posting Tintin news

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An Oncle Zigomar album which was never translated into French

[caption id="attachment_477" align="alignleft" width="213"] De cover as drawn by Johan De Moor[/caption] From 5 January 1956 till 29 Februari 1956, the daily newspaper De Nieuwe Gids (and related titles) published the Uncle Zigomar story "De Sprekende Wandelstok" (Eng: "The Talking Cane"). The story was the 15th and last volume in the series, and unlike other Uncle Zigomar stories it never

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2 different versions of Fruit d’or advert featuring Professor Calculus

[caption id="attachment_469" align="alignleft" width="300"] Advert featuring peasant woman - Copyright © Hergé / Moulinsart[/caption] In the series of Fruit d'Or adverts which Bob De Moor completed for Publiart/Studios Hergé, today let's check out one particular advert featuring Professor Calculus hovering in the air with a hamper of poultry in his left hand and a Fruit d'Or margarine/a cooking butter boat in

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