Bob De Moor

Bouboule & Noiraud / Fee & Fonske are back for the very first time in album format – 71 years after their first appearance

by bernard
October 5, 2020
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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

Barelli goes eighties for the Stripschapkalender 1985

by bernard
September 27, 2020
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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)

BD Must celebrates Barelli’s 70th anniversary with a new album

by bernard
September 14, 2020
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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

Preparatory drawings for Bécassine on the back of a Tintin chromo

by bernard
September 12, 2020
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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

Nesquik, Walibi and Bob De Moor

by bernard
September 4, 2020
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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,

The birth of a cover for Bob De Moor’s ‘Dat wondere Pimpeltje’ by Johan De Moor

by bernard
September 4, 2020
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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

1948 story ‘Dat wondere pimpeltje’ finally sees an album format

by bernard
August 31, 2020
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In 1948 Bob De Moor drew a story, written by Jozef Van Overstraeten (who was the president of the V.A.B. or the Vlaamse Automilistenbond - an association for cardrivers basically) called "Dat wondere pimpeltje" (That wonderful pimple). The comic was published in the Kleine Zondagsvriend of that year. Note that this is one of the few occasions were the stories

In 1989 Casterman and Rijperman released the first color album version of "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. Today we present you one already which we found back in the collection of Olivier Marin and which was made for a Rijperman version in mind (the title is also in French and not in Dutch). The drawing was made on drawing stationary from the Hergé Studios as you can see and is rather small, but drawn in a very swift and fluent way. The black and white drawing is quite different from the final version as you can see below. In this early version you see Snow and Snolleke (renamed Johan and Stefan in the dutch version - Johan and Stephan in the French version) together with Uncle Zigomar (ridiculously translated Oom Watje in Dutch) looking at a goat statue placed on a high pedestal. Zigomar is holding a hammer, referring to his role as a sculptor in this album. You will notice that De Moor 'deleted' a sculpture in the background in order to make Zigomar more visible. Zigomar seems terrified of the statue, which is not really all that logical, it's a statue after all. And that might well have been Bob De Moor's reason not to go into this direction. Add to this that compared to the final version this one has a lot less action, you just see the trio watching the statue. In the final version, you find inspector Evaristus who is about to be knocked down whilst watching a sculpture of a goat. Small detail, the scene presented on the cover artwork of the album never happened in the album, in reality Evaristus was watching an empty pedestal. But Bob De Moor wanted to get the goat statue central in the drawing's action.

Bob De Moor made several versions for the reedition of ‘Les Boucs Emissaires’

by bernard
January 14, 2018
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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.

Holes instead of socks – Bob De Moor post World War 2

by bernard
December 24, 2017
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In April this year we posted a drawing showcasing the lack of materials the Belgian population was confronted with as the second war continued. During (and especially at the end of) and also after the German occupation of Belgium, people were confronted with a lot of products not being available. The drawing, or rather the cartoon, laughed with the use

‘Oorlog in het Heelal’/’Guerre dans le Cosmos’ cover artwork refurbished for Sony advert

by bernard
July 23, 2017
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In September 2015 this site published the article "The cover for 'War In The Cosmos' which never got used for a French reprint" showing a drawing which appeared to be a never published before front cover for a new french version of “Oorlog In Het Heelal”, the story Bob De Moor created for the weekly magazine Ons Volk in 1949.