On October 1948 't Kapoentje published the final page of "Willem De Vrijbuiter" (later renamed "Willem Koelbloed" for the publication in De Volksmacht in 1949) which was one of the more realistic stories Bob De Moor would create in his early career and which together with for instance "De Verklikker" (KZV 1949) would form a test platform for his Flemish Trilogy
Read MoreLast year we wrote about a significant difference in a sequence of Bob De Moor's Snoe & Snolleke album “Het Mollenrijk” as published in the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag and the version of the albums as published by Bédéscope. The two versions were finally included in one edition, that by Brabant Strip in 2003 (a highly recommended
Read MoreWhilst cruising through the archives of the family De Moor, I stumbled on a drawing which appeared to be a never published before front cover for a new french version of "Oorlog In Het Heelal". "Oorlog In Het Heelal" was originally created by Bob De Moor for the weekly magazine Ons Volk in 1949. It got 2 later publications, but
Read MoreOn April 11, 1946 the weekly lifestyle magazine Zondagsvriend would published a story called "Een dolle weddenschap" (English for “A foolish bet”) featuring a cowboy who accepts the challenge to jump out of a balloon with a parachute. The drawing there indicated that Bob De Moor was very familiar with drawing cowboys. Not very surprising because one of the earliest
Read MoreRunning the Bob De Moor website on just external archives would be too easy, for that reason I can count on an own archive with all kind of rare items. On top of that - from time to time - I also get contacted by sellers who have something on offer, and depending on the price I sometimes buy the item,
Read MoreVodje De Zwerver was one of many one strip cartoons which Bob De Moor (using RDM as signature) created in his early career. Unfortunately none of these would ever see a publication as an album, except for the 1948 cartoons which were published in a mega rare edition by Pierre Verheylewegen in which the cartoons made by De Moor between
Read MoreBy the end of July 1949 Bob De Moor agreed to start working for the Tintin weekly, first as a layout assistant to Evany aka Eugène Van Nyverseel, and this 2 days per week. More than 3 days would be overkill as Bob De Moor knew, because he was around that time busy with - take a seat - 12
Read MoreIn the past 2 years we have been using a lot of pictures taken from the archives of Johannes Stawowy, as you can see here for instance. But a few weeks ago Johannes sent us also a couple of scans of drawings Bob De Moor made when corresponding with him or when signing a scrapbook. Today we show you 4
Read MoreIn "Bob de Moor. 40 ans de bandes dessinées, 35 ans aux côtés d'Hergé" you could read that Bob De Moor was part of the Zazou movement in the early 40s in Antwerp, Belgium. Today we show you a drawing which Bob De Moor made in 1945. For those who have read Ronald Grossey's book "Bob De Moor - De
Read MoreUpdate: Roger Leloup has confirmed us that he did not work on the page Bob De Moor created for the Jo & Zette version of the "Thermozéro" album. Last year the news popped up that the unreleased Tintin album “Thermozéro” with a scenario by Greg would get a release after all. Back then we hinted at the possible inclusion of
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