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 alternative version of Barelli’s ‘Bonne mine à la mer’ cover
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 MoreBob De Moor’s version of Thomson and Thompson going Ola
Ola, 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 draws Agent Officer No. 15 on a memo for the Tintin Journal
Bob 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 MoreDirk Stallaert completed the new cover for the reissue in black and white of the original version of “The secret of Vulcania”
From 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 MoreTaking hurdles with Bob De Moor
While 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 MoreInfo wanted: where was this bank cartoon first used and in which context?
In 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 MoreRocket roof trouble with Hergé and Bob De Moor
Together 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 MoreExclusive Blake & Mortimer material revealed via this Bob De Moor website
Late 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
Read MoreNew Snoe & Snolleke album edition ‘De zwarte draak’ released, but another one, ‘Het Geheim van Vulcania’, in the pipeline via Fenix Collection by Brabant Strip vzw
Out now is the brand new edition of the Snoe & Snolleke album 'De zwarte draak' which was first released in album format in 1993, albeit in an adapted coloured version, by the Standaard Uitgeverij. For this version the people behind the Fenix Collection by Brabant Strip vzw were able to get hold of the original newspaper prints published between
Read MoreSerdu pays respect to Bob De Moor in 1993
In 1993 Serdu (aka Serge Duhayon) published a cartoon paying tribute to Bob De Moor who had died, and this just like many other artists around that time. And that cartoon is the one we present you today. We haven't really got an idea in which publication this cartoon/tribute appeared, so if someone has an idea, let us know so
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