In 1989 Casterman and Rijperman released the first color album version of the Johan and Stefan album "De Zondebokken" ("Les Bouts Emissaires" in French, and "De Geitenrijders" in the original Flemish version which was also the very first Snow en Snolleke album ever). For that reedition Bob De Moor would prepare a lot of different versions of the cover artwork.
Read MoreUpdate: 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 MoreIn 1970 the Journal Tintin started with the pre-publication of the Lefranc album "Le repaire du loup". As you all know, this album was drawn by Bob De Moor under guidance of Jacques Martin. The 4th album in the Lefranc series would surprisingly only be released some 4 years later by Casterman. [caption id="attachment_1449" align="alignleft" width="209"] The sketch as made
Read MoreGood news reaches us from the Brabant Strip headquarters. The team behind Brabant Strip have been able to find the original newspaper clippings of the 1954 Snoe and Snolleke story "De zwarte draak" ("The black dragon") during a foray at the Vossenplein in Brussels. [caption id="attachment_1424" align="alignleft" width="300"] Notice the difference in language in both versions.[/caption] This re-edition is important for
Read More"Le Repaire du loup" was the 4th volume in the Lefranc series by Jacques Martin, but unlike the first 3, this 4th volume was drawn by Bob De Moor. Pre-published in the Belgian Journal Tintin between April 21st 1970 and 8 September 1970 it was finally published in album format in 1974 by the Belgian editor Casterman. This year, 41
Read MoreWhen '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
Read MoreUPDATE: Pierre Gay worked on these particular pages. We added his comments. Between 1987 and 1994 Boogaloo, Casterman, Rijperman, and the Standaard Uitgeverij would re-release 8 Johan & Stefaan (Snoe & Snolleke) albums in color. As we reported already a while back, this coloring included redrawing as well as you can see in this earlier article on "De Gele Spion",
Read MoreFrom 1977 (starting on 22/11/1977) to 1978 Bob De Moor saw his reboot of the Cori saga, "L'Invincible Armada - Les Espions de la Reine", published in Nouveau Tintin, Eppo, Junior, ... The cover used to announce this brilliant first part of the rebooted Cori saga on the first glance looks exactly the same as the one used for the
Read More"La veuve d'Hergé sort de l'ombre" - Paris Match 8-14/05/2014 Since Bob De Moor wanted to complete the unfinished "Tintin and Alph-Art" album, but was refused to do so in the end, we thought that this particular newsbit might interest more than just one reader (and that's probably an understatement). Note: It's not the intention to start posting Tintin news
Read More[caption id="attachment_458" align="alignleft" width="300"] On the right the Casterman version from 1989, on the left the Magnum series version from 1979.[/caption] Today you'll see a very good example of how an album in the Oncle Zigomar series got rewritten, renamed, partially redrawn, and a bit brutalized (for the dutch market?). Victim of today is the album "De sigarillo’s van Koningin
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