Tag: Standaard Uitgeverij

1954 Snoe en Snolleke album ‘De zwarte draak’ finally to be released in original version in 2015

Good 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

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Logo 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

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Another insight in the color preparation of the Johan & Stephane (Snoe & Snolleke) album ‘De Gele Spion’

UPDATE: 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",

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Bob De Moor as ghost artist for a reissue of Willy Vandersteen’s ‘Tijl Uilenspiegel’ in 1991

Here's a detail from the career of Bob De Moor which is not that well known. Online for instance there is no single website mentioning this. But here you have all the details. We expect this story to develop further so a follow-up story will most probably happen. [caption id="attachment_877" align="alignleft" width="219"] The cover as drawn by Willy Vandersteen[/caption] All

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The squint-eyed silver fox cover artwork as it changed overtime

[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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