In 1986 Raymond Leblanc's Tintin magazine existed 40 years. Lots of extra drawings were made that year by Bob De Moor and others to celebrate this event (and we'll get back on this subject later on). But not all drawings were meant for general publication because several comic authors also decided to send personal greetings to Raymond Leblanc. One of
Read MoreCatawiki has a rather weird Bob De Moor item listed since April 2013, namely a cover Bob De Moor would have drawn for a calendar back in 1946. [caption id="attachment_905" align="alignleft" width="220"] The item as listed on Catawiki[/caption] The story goes that in 1946 Bob De Moor was asked to create the frontcover of a 1947 youth calendar to be published
Read MoreIn 1986 Bob De Moor created a drawing which the organisation of the Angoulême Comics Festival used on a numbered postcard distributed for the occasion (and probably also posters, but we didn't find any trace back of these so far). Alain Demaret kindly enough sent us a full scan of that card. On that postcard you see a young couple in
Read MoreOn August 4 you could already read how Bob De Moor was asked to help out the Vandersteen heirs when in 1991 a republication of the Tijl Uilenspiegel story "Opstand der Geuzen" via the Standaard Uitgeverij was imminent. As we explained in that article De Moor’s help was needed because the Vandersteen Studios could no longer locate the original drawings
Read MoreIn March we reported about quite a rare item that was (and still is) being sold on eBay for the ridiculous sum of € 55: a promotional poster in French, commissioned by the Citroën Garage Royen in Woluwe, Belgium. Although we didn't succeed in convincing the owner to have the original drawing scanned, we did manage to lay our hands on
Read MoreHere's a detail from the career of Bob De Moor which is not that well known. Online for instance there is no single website mentioning this. But here you have all the details. We expect this story to develop further so a follow-up story will most probably happen. [caption id="attachment_877" align="alignleft" width="219"] The cover as drawn by Willy Vandersteen[/caption] All
Read MoreBetween 1955 and 1958 Raymond Leblanc's Belvision studios worked on several animation adaptations of some of Willy Vandersteen's Spike and Suzy albums (that's English for'Suske en Wiske' for those wondering) for the Flemish television NIR. Included were "Het Spaanse spook" ("The Spanish Spook"), "De bronzen sleutel" ("The Bronze Key"), "De gezanten van Mars" ("The Martian Ambassadors") - of which an
Read More[caption id="attachment_824" align="alignleft" width="300"] The 17 x 13 cm signed artwork "La caravelle"[/caption] In March 2009 the Art Value auction house based in Drouot-Montaigne, Paris (France) auctioned a watercolor painting/drawing which Bob De Moor made back in 1944. Called "La caravelle" it was made as an illustration for a book or story which never was edited (so the prospectus says).
Read More[caption id="attachment_820" align="alignleft" width="219"] A page from the original 1947 edition, in French.[/caption] Coming up (the precise date is not yet known, but it should be in Fall of 2014) is a new edition of "Le mystère du vieux château" in French. As you already know from our previous post about "Le mystère du vieux château" there will also be
Read More[caption id="attachment_811" align="alignleft" width="200"] Ronald Grossey[/caption] A while ago we had an interview with Ronald Grossey, author of the book "Bob De Moor. De klare lijn en de golven; een biografie". Grossey isn't exactly what you can call a new bee in the world of comics. Ronald Grossey (born in Antwerp in 1956) is a flemish author and publisher. In
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