[caption id="attachment_638" align="alignleft" width="300"] Barelli and Moreau in 2 different shapes.[/caption] When a drawing needs to be adjusted today, needs to be re-used for another purpose, or extra characters need to be added, the graphic artists simply turn on their Macbook, fire up Photoshop and render a new image. How different this is compared to the hard labour comic authors had
Read More[caption id="attachment_631" align="alignleft" width="300"] The jury for the 'Bronzen Adhemar 1991' in Turnhout, Belgium. From the left to the right: Ad Hendrickx, Bob De Moor, Jan Smet, Marc Sleen, Manu Manderveld, Patrick Van Gompel, Hec Leemans.[/caption] Ad Hendrickx, owner of the Turnhout (Belgium) based comic shop 'Tistjen Dop', sent us this nice picture of Bob De Moor when he was
Read MoreIn the issue 18 of the Belgian edition of the Tintin Journal from the year 1950 Bob De Moor created a small game with Monsieur Tric, at that time - and this until 1953 - still called 'Professeur Tric' in the French edition (he would always be called 'Meester Mus' in dutch). Page 12 shows Monsieur Tric in various postures
Read More[caption id="attachment_622" align="alignleft" width="212"] Page 26 from the version published in the french written Comics 130 magazine[/caption] In issue 34 1949 of the weekly youth journal Ons Volkske Bob De Moor would present the story "Oorlog in het Heelal" (Eng. "War in the universe"), an SF story which would run until issue 15 of 1950. The 32 page story was situated in
Read MoreIn 1991 the Dutch transport company NHZ (formerly known as NZHSTM or Noord-Zuid-Hollandsche Stoomtramweg-Maatschappij and since 1999 known as Connexxion) published its yearly bus timetable. The cover of that publication had since 1983 been created by a famous comic authors. In 1983 for instance it was Joost Swarte who would draw the first one. In 1990 Bob De Moor was
Read MoreOut on the 22nd of August is the brand new album, "Coeur Glacé" (Eng. "Ice cold heart") by Johan De Moor, son of Bob De Moor, on a scenario by Gilles Dal. The video which Le Lombard has put online is a real pearl as far as promoting a comic album is concerned and shows that Johan De Moor has
Read More[caption id="attachment_606" align="alignleft" width="208"] The front of the 1984 B-day card.[/caption] In 1984 Le Lombard asked Bob De Moor to create a 'Happy Birthday' card. It was one of several which he would make for Le Lombard in the eighties and would underline his good relations with the publisher. It's no coincidence that after he completed "Mortimer contre Mortimer" in
Read More[caption id="attachment_598" align="alignleft" width="207"] The cover for Tintin, issue 43, 1950.[/caption] Update: we have been informed by Olivier Marin that the original black and white drawing as you can see in this article no longer exists as the owner of the drawing had it colored by a Studio Hergé colorist somewhere in the 80s. On 26 October 1950 the Tintin
Read More[caption id="attachment_594" align="alignleft" width="249"] The original final case on page 7.[/caption] In the first edition of the Blake and Mortimer album "Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer" (1990) Bob De Moor drew the last case of page 7 in a rather awkward way. You can see Captain Francis Blake running into 2 other people, but something just
Read More[caption id="attachment_580" align="alignleft" width="300"] The frontcover of the booklet[/caption] In 1985 'Le Théâtre de l'Esprit Frappeur' produced the comedy-musical "Marilyn et Staline vont en avion". The piece was written by Thierry van Eyll and François Rauber and directed by Albert-André Lheureux with music by François Rauber. It played at the Brussels -based Botanique venue and had a 20-page booklet with a
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