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…
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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 new poetry recital named "La Lune Violée" in the Grand Auditorium at Passage 44 in Brussels. And behold, it was Bob De Moor who did the poster artwork inspired by the "Explorers on the Moon" lunar landscape which he had been working on in 1952-1953.
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Bob De Moor’s Barelli interpreted by Ömer Muz for Milliyet Çocuk
On October 31st 1983, the Turkish children magazine Milliyet Çocuk, which basically was the Turkish version of the Journal Tintin if you look at it (but without Tintin as the mascotte), published a cover of 'Barelli and the secret agents'. The story was running in various episodes in the magazine and you will recognize the cover as being the one
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A bearded man in a kilt as the auction house says? Not really
One of my hobbies is going through all of the online and offline auctions that are being offered in the world of comics and sometimes a less well known Bob De Moor drawing appears. Today I show you one of those findings. This little drawing (11cm x 14cm) dates back from the early 50s looking at the signature used. I
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‘War In The Cosmos’ gets published in colour with a Bob De Moor cover
Back in September 2015 (time flies) we published the article “The cover for ‘War In The Cosmos’, showing a cover of said story which never got used. It was for a French reprint somewhere in the late 80s (1987-1989). The project was however abandoned… until now. The never published before cover artwork of the unreleased re-edition of "Guerre Dans Le
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Bouboule & Noiraud / Fee & Fonske are back for the very first time in album format – 71 years after their first appearance
In November 2014 and September 2015 we published 2 articles on the series Fee & Fonske (Bouboule & Noiraud in French). The series was published between 1949 and 1951 in Ons Volkske under the name “De Fratsen van Fee en Fonske” and “De avonturen van Mieleke en Dolf” and would also appear in both Kuifje Weekblad and Journal Tintin as
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Barelli goes eighties for the Stripschapkalender 1985
While visiting fellow Bob De Moor admirer Jean-Luc Bostyn last week, I noticed the 1985 calendar of Het Stripschap in his collection. I don't have that item in my collection so I asked if I could have a look to see what Bob De Moor content it held. And behold, the February page holds an FM rock/metal/eighties (fluo we imagine)
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BD Must celebrates Barelli’s 70th anniversary with a new album
In July 1950 Barelli appeared for the very first time in the Journal Tintin ("L'enigmatique monsieur Barelli" Tintin, 30/1950 - 9/1951). This makes that Barelli has just celebrated his 70th birthday. Below is the first page as it was published in the Journal Tintin. And this can not go unnoticed of course. BD Must is now releasing a special anniversary
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Preparatory drawings for Bécassine on the back of a Tintin chromo
A while ago a drawing of 4 illustrations (completed in watercolor) to be used for the 2nd volume of "L’histoire de la Marine", namely "L'histoire de la marine de 1700 à 1850165", got auctioned. Only the coloring was attributed to Bob De Moor, but it's highly probable that he also made the drawings of the boats unlike what the auction
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Nesquik, Walibi and Bob De Moor
A few weeks ago I came across a drawing which depicted a scene on an exotic beach with 3 cabin boys opening a treasure chest. The scene was adorned with Nesquik banners on the left and right and was clearly made to be part of a display. The drawing itself was on sale as being from Johan De Moor. However,
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The birth of a cover for Bob De Moor’s ‘Dat wondere Pimpeltje’ by Johan De Moor
A few days ago we announced the imminent publication in album format (for the very first time) of the 1948 story “Dat wondere pimpeltje” for which the script was written by Jozef Van Overstraeten based on his book with the same title from 1946. We took the opportunity to catch up with Johan De Moor as he delivered the cover
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