A few weeks ago we presented you the first and second article in a series of articles that will treat the genesis of the 1988 album “Barelli in bruisend Brussel”. The assistant of Bob De Moor for that album was Geert De Sutter, who took care of the background/decors in the album. Since both men only had a few months
Read MoreA few days ago we presented you the first article in a series of articles that will treat the genesis of the 1988 album "Barelli in bruisend Brussel". The assistant of Bob De Moor for that album was Geert De Sutter, who took care of the background/decors in the album. Since both men only had a few months to complete the
Read MoreGeert De Sutter sent us a few scanned pages of the preliminary sketches Bob De Moor made. The scans exist because Bob De Moor always asked that Geert De Sutter would make A3 copies of the sketches before to start working on them. The page we show you today is the first page of the “Barelli in bruisend Brussel” album. [caption id="attachment_1505"
Read MoreToday we present you a detail which will very well explain how Bob De Moor and Geert De Sutter worked for creating the album "Barelli in bruisend Brussel" album. The detail was sent to us by Geert De Sutter a few weeks ago. The album itself originally was published in 1988 and reissued in 1989 and 1994. [caption id="attachment_1500" align="alignleft"
Read MoreIn the past few months we dedicated 2 articles to the cover drawing which Bob De Moor completed in August 1992 for the 1994 publication "La 22, Enquête sur une mystérieuse Citroën". The book, written by Hervé Laronde and Fabien Sabatès and published via the French publisher Rétroviseur, features the very last drawing Bob De Moor would complete before succumbing
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[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
Read More[caption id="attachment_339" align="alignleft" width="232"] The original cover drawing[/caption] 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. In the very first artwork (which you
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