Today's article was triggered by a mail we got from Petja van den Hurk who pointed us towards this blogpost by Peter Velter on the Joost Swarte website. The article recalled an aborted project from 1975 to unite a number of comics by well known underground authors in one album. But although the project never got realised, Velter did compile
Read MoreOla, better known in the Anglo-Saxon world under the brand name 'Wall's', is an ice cream brand owned by the Anglo-Dutch food and personal care conglomerate Unilever. And back in the (60s?), 70s and eighties they regularly collaborated with the Studios Hergé in order to use the Tintin characters in their adverts, run contests via Tintin Journal etc.. It was
Read MoreBob De Moor is know for having drawn a lot of drawings on all kind of documents. Today we present you a Studios Hergé document which was recently auctioned for a little more than 350 Euro if memory serves me right. The document is actually a memo which was used by Bob De Moor to clarify that he had sent
Read MoreFrom 1 February 1954 until 25 May 1954 the newspapers De Nieuwe Gids, De Antwerpse and ’t Vrije Volksblad published the Snoe & Snolleke story "Het geheim van Vulcania". The album has since the publication in 1954 never been published in album format, at least not in its original form, black and white that is. In 1993 the album saw
Read MoreWhile going through the archives of the family De Moor I stumbled on this cartoon which must date from the era when Bob De Moor worked for several magazines, which dates this drawing between 1946 and 1951. The drawing itself has no reference to what magazine it was published in but looking at the style used, it's my guess it's
Read MoreIn 1975 issue 3 of the magazine Stripklub Nieuwsblad (one of the many publications by Karel Driesen) dedicated 7 of its 16 pages to Bob De Moor. The cartoon we show you today was one of 2 printed on page 11 of this magazine. But we have more questions than answers regarding this cartoon... In December 2014 you could already
Read MoreTogether with Editions Moulinsart, the French publisher Hachette has been releasing 2-weekly 'En avion Tintin' packages via newspaper shops in Belgium. The packages hold an airplane, helicopter or rocket, a figurine and a 24-pages book explaining the background of the Tintin story in which the airplane appeared plus historical info on the airplane itself. So far 41 packages have been released,
Read MoreLate last year Dargaud published a Blake & Mortimer album holding the complete "Les Trois Formules Du Professeur Satô" series, in this case 2 albums of which the second album, "Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer", was drawn by Bob De Moor based on the sketches Edgar P. Jacobs made several years before. As we all know, up
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