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 cover for ‘War In The Cosmos’ which never got used for a French reprint
Whilst cruising through the archives of the family De Moor, I stumbled on a drawing which appeared to be a never published before front cover for a new french version of "Oorlog In Het Heelal". "Oorlog In Het Heelal" was originally created by Bob De Moor for the weekly magazine Ons Volk in 1949. It got 2 later publications, but
Read MoreShooting cowboys, John Wayne and Bob De Moor in 1941
On April 11, 1946 the weekly lifestyle magazine Zondagsvriend would published a story called "Een dolle weddenschap" (English for “A foolish bet”) featuring a cowboy who accepts the challenge to jump out of a balloon with a parachute. The drawing there indicated that Bob De Moor was very familiar with drawing cowboys. Not very surprising because one of the earliest
Read MoreThe Spanish Gold, a short story illustrated by Bob De Moor in 1945 for the ABC weekly
Running the Bob De Moor website on just external archives would be too easy, for that reason I can count on an own archive with all kind of rare items. On top of that - from time to time - I also get contacted by sellers who have something on offer, and depending on the price I sometimes buy the item,
Read MoreVodje De Zwerver, a 1947 cartoon by Bob De Moor
Vodje De Zwerver was one of many one strip cartoons which Bob De Moor (using RDM as signature) created in his early career. Unfortunately none of these would ever see a publication as an album, except for the 1948 cartoons which were published in a mega rare edition by Pierre Verheylewegen in which the cartoons made by De Moor between
Read MoreWorking hard with Bob De Moor in 1949
By the end of July 1949 Bob De Moor agreed to start working for the Tintin weekly, first as a layout assistant to Evany aka Eugène Van Nyverseel, and this 2 days per week. More than 3 days would be overkill as Bob De Moor knew, because he was around that time busy with - take a seat - 12
Read More4 Bob De Moor dedications from the archives of Johannes Stawowy
In the past 2 years we have been using a lot of pictures taken from the archives of Johannes Stawowy, as you can see here for instance. But a few weeks ago Johannes sent us also a couple of scans of drawings Bob De Moor made when corresponding with him or when signing a scrapbook. Today we show you 4
Read MoreZazouing with Bob De Moor in 1945
In "Bob de Moor. 40 ans de bandes dessinées, 35 ans aux côtés d'Hergé" you could read that Bob De Moor was part of the Zazou movement in the early 40s in Antwerp, Belgium. Today we show you a drawing which Bob De Moor made in 1945. For those who have read Ronald Grossey's book "Bob De Moor - De
Read MoreBob De Moor and Thermozéro, here’s what you can expect
Update: Roger Leloup has confirmed us that he did not work on the page Bob De Moor created for the Jo & Zette version of the "Thermozéro" album. Last year the news popped up that the unreleased Tintin album “Thermozéro” with a scenario by Greg would get a release after all. Back then we hinted at the possible inclusion of
Read MoreMore details on the upcoming re-release of the Flemish Trilogy by Bob De Moor
As we reported a while back, the Brussels based editor BD Must is working on the re-release of Bob De Moor's Flemish Trilogy which consists of these 3 albums: “Le Lion des Flandres” ("De Leeuw van Vlaanderen" in Dutch), “Les gars de Flandre” ("De Kerels van Vlaanderen" in Dutch) and “Conrad le Hardi” (“Sterke Jan” in Dutch). [caption id="attachment_1612" align="alignleft" width="143"]
Read MoreThe strange cover of ‘Het Betoverde Zandtapijt’ and the redrawn 4 strips
In 1985, the publisher De Dageraad would release Magnum 50, aka the Snoe & Snolleke story "Het Betoverde Zandtapijt". This was the 10th story of the series which originally was published in Nieuws van de Dag from May 26 1954 until September 11 1954. The story would only be released once in album format, namely in the Magnum series, and would
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