Bob De Moor illustrates Charles Kleinberg’s poetry recital ‘La Lune Violée’
From 3 to 8 December 1985 the Belgian French speaking poet Charles Kleinberg presented a…
Read MoreThe smoking kid, a watercolor painting from 1947
68 years ago, in 1947, Bob De Moor painted a drawing which has been part of the toilet ornaments of the family De Moor for years. Not surprisingly the drawing remained in the archives of the family De Moor and we can show it today for the very first time. [caption id="attachment_1353" align="alignleft" width="204"] A 1947 drawing by Bob De
Read MoreHappy New Year with this 1953 rarity
To end the year in beauty, we're offering you a Christmas/New Year's cartoon which Bob De Moor made for Publiart on December 28th 1953. The original drawing comes from the collection of Olivier Marin, which many will know as artist behind the albums / series "Les déesses de la route", "Le mystère de la traction 22", ... [caption id="attachment_1350" align="alignleft"
Read MoreArtec Studios’ hidden collaborators: Mon Van Meulenbroeck (part 2)
A few days ago you could read an article on the work Armand "Mon" Van Meulenbroeck did for Artec Studios, the company founded by Bob De Moor and John Van Looveren. Today we present you another comic which has always been attributed to Bob De Moor, but which is not by Bob De Moor at all: Tim & Tom. [caption
Read MoreArtec Studios’ hidden collaborators: Mon Van Meulenbroeck (part 1)
The Artec Studios were founded in order to sell Bob De Moor's comics with or without scenarios by John Van Looveren and this to a rather huge number of publications. However, some of these drawings were not (completely) by Bob De Moor. Due to the enormous work that Van Looveren contracted, several people started helping out. Today we present you such
Read MoreThe Dutch edition of ‘Het Mysterie van de Oude Burcht’ out now + interview
Out now is the 100th album in the Fenix Collection by Brabant Strip, namely Bob De Moor's “Le Mystère du vieux chateau fort” albeit in a Dutch version with the title "Het Mysterie van de Oude Burcht". The album is released as a hard cover, full color, in Dutch and they have succeeded in keeping the original colors of the
Read MoreThe squint-eyed silver fox cover artwork as drawn by… Johan De Moor
In 1956 the album "De schele zilvervos" (dutch for"The squint-eyed silver fox") by Bob de Moor was released. This 4th album in the 'Nonkel Zigomar, Snoe en Snolleke' series has a peculiar twist in the original cover artwork if you compare it to later editions as we already reported a few months ago. [caption id="attachment_340" align="alignleft" width="210"] The new version
Read MoreWhen Mars and Sabena unite, you get a De Moor wedding!
On September 12, 1992 Stefaan De Moor, the youngest of the 5 De Moor/De Belder children, married his girlfriend, Françoise. The wedding took place only 10 days after the funeral of Bob De Moor. Although it might seem a bit odd to have a wedding so soon after burying a father, it was Bob De Moor himself who insisted that
Read MoreHold-up cartoon by Bob De Moor from the 60s
In 1975 issue 3 of the magazine Stripklub Nieuwsblad (one of the many publications by Karel Driesen) dedicated 7 of its 16 pages (yes, it indeed was really a very small magazine) to Bob De Moor. But it must be said that these pages did include quite a lot of material which you will never find elsewhere. The cartoon we
Read MoreWas it Hergé or Bob De Moor who drew the Tijl Uilenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak series? Het Nieuws Van De Dag reveals the truth
On September 7th 1950 the newspaper Het Nieuws Van De Dag announced a brand new story from Bob De Moor, "Het vals gebit" featuring Tijl Uilenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, which would start the day after. It was the second album which Bob De Moor drew for that series after he debuted earlier that year with "De nieuwe avonturen van Tijl
Read MoreBob De Moor introduces ‘Tintin and the Picaros’ with a polonaise (kinda)
When 'Tintin and the Picaros' was pre-published in Journal Tintin in 1975, the 2 pages before the actual first pages of the pre-publication included a typical Tintinesque 'dance' (in Flanders we would call that a type of 'Polonaise') featuring kids running in a '3' shape way from the extreme left to the extreme right hopping over and through the letters "Tintin
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