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 missing text balloons in the Barelli album ‘The Lord of Gonobutz’
A week ago Alain Demaret passed us a black/white version of the "Le Seigneur de Gonobutz" ("The Lord of Gonobutz") album as prepublished in Le Soir. We presume this was in 1976 as there was also a prepublication of the story in Journal Tintin of 1976. This black and white publication had quite some hick-ups. Today we'll discuss one already,
Read MoreLogo Willy Vandersteen’s De Rode Ridder (The Red Knight) was based on Bob De Moor’s ‘Lion of Flanders’
In 1959 the Studio Vandersteen was working on getting the first 40 page album released of De Rode Ridder (The Red Knight), namely "Het gebroken zwaard" (The broken Sword). For the title page Vandersteen's publisher Wim Goderis was looking for a vignette, more precisely a vignette with De Rode Ridder (The Red Knight) waving with his sword while being seated
Read MoreBob De Moor, a graphic chameleon celebrates Christmas in Ukkel
Stefaan De Moor sent us a postcard as drawn by his father Bob De Moor which shows a side of Bob De Moor that is not all that often shown. The card itself is not drawn in the typical clear line like Bob De Moor used for Barelli, nor is it in the realistic style like he did for Cori.
Read MoreUnreleased cover artwork for ‘L’énigmatique Monsieur Barelli’
During the 60s and 70s, Lombard would publish several collections at a rather moderate price. The low price also had as a result that the French versions didn't come in the normal hardcover versions but - very unusual on the French speaking bookmarket - in a cheaper paperback version. The stories were often also shorter, 32 instead of 44 pages.
Read MoreThe Mole Empire in 2 very different publications (part 2)
On December 31st 1954, the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag announced a brand new story of Bob De Moor‘s ‘De avonturen van Nonkel Zigomar, Snoe en Snolleke': “Het Mollenrijk”. Yesterday we talked about the differences between the cover version of the albums as published by Bédéscope and Brabant Strip. Today we focus on what is quite a remarkable change
Read MoreThe Mole Empire in 2 very different publications (part 1)
On December 31st 1954, the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag (not to be confounded with the Dutch newspaper De Courant/Nieuws van de Dag) announced a brand new story of Bob De Moor's 'De avonturen van Nonkel Zigomar, Snoe en Snolleke': "Het Mollenrijk". It would take 26 years before it would be released in an album format - in french
Read MoreThe onomatopoeia in Professor Quick
As you could read in this September 9 article, Professor Quick was a series which Bob De Moor created in 1947 for the Flemish weekly Week-End. Today we present you a few details from this one strip cartoon which was titled "Professor Quick in actie" in Week-End. The strips were always publicized without text balloons. So non-verbal situational yet anarchist
Read MoreMieleke & Dolf / Bouboule & Noiraud make their entry in 1949
In 1949 Ons Volkske started to publish the adventures of Mieleke & Dolf / Fee & Fonske which was also published in the Flemish weekly Kuifje. In French the series was known as Bouboule & Noiraud from the publications in Junior - from 1954 on - and in the Journal Tintin - from 1949 on. This series has unfortunately never been published in book
Read MoreGreetings aus der Schweiz! Mit Bob De Moor (Part 2)
Last week we posted a first article based on a few pictures that were sent to the family De Moor by Swiss Bob De Moor fan Thomas Brügger. We'll present 4 of these pictures. Today we serve you the second picture which shows Bob De Moor in a rather unusual posture in his home in Ukkel at the Square Coghen.
Read MoreGreetings aus der Schweiz! Mit Bob De Moor (Part 1)
A few days ago we received a few pictures that were sent to the family De Moor by a Swiss Bob De Moor fan, namely Thomas Brügger. The pictures were taken in summer of 1990 1989, more precisely July 20th, so Bob De Moor was working on the Blake and Mortimer album "Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer".
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