[caption id="attachment_253" align="alignleft" width="217"] The first Cori volume is now also colored.[/caption] If you can now find the Barelli, Monsieur Tric or Cori albums in excellent hardcover editions, then that is largely due to the small Belgian editor BD Must éditions who took it upon themselves to start reissuing the work from Bob de Moor. Since 2001 the Brussels based editor
Read More[caption id="attachment_246" align="alignleft" width="178"] 20th anniversary of the Tintin Journal with Bob de Moor[/caption] On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Tintin journal the whole editorial staff went having dinner at the Brussels based hotel Amigo and this on September 30 1966. For the occasion Bob de Moor designed a pastiche picture of Hergé which was added on
Read More[caption id="attachment_243" align="alignleft" width="229"] Bob de Moor selfie with Tintin and Snowy[/caption] Selfies nowadays are extremely popular and for those unfamiliar with the phenomenon, selfies are self-portrait photographs, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. But did you know that Bob de Moor was actually a professional selfie-maker? Throughout his career he has created several 'selfies' portraying
Read MoreIn 1989 Bob de Moor created this drawing for the Le Soir Illustré, it shows the late King Baudouin reading a Cori album whilst sitting on a throne constructed of comic albums. This drawing actually holds a lot of info if you look more closely. Bob de Moor included every single of his favorite fellow comic writer colleagues. Missing however
Read MoreThe author of the Bob de Moor Biography "De klare lijn en de golven" (Eng: "The clear line and the waves"), Ronald Grossey, will be interviewed for the Bob de Moor Facebook page and website. If you have (a) question(s) for him after reading the book (or perhaps even if you haven't read it yet), post it below in the
Read MoreIn 1972 this Barelli mini-poster by Bob de Moor was published in the french Tintin journal, number 1233 to be exact. It of course was part of the "Le bouddha boudant" album which was a real chef-d'oeuvre. The album was one of the Barelli albums that closed in most perfectly on the design as used by Hergé for Tintin. It's
Read MoreOn multiple occasions throughout his career Bob de Moor not only inserted cameo appearances in his work but he also 'arranged' meetings between with his characters and Hergé or in this case Tintin. More examples exist, we'll present them bit by bit.
Read MoreOut now is the complete 5 album collection of Cori le moussaillon by Bob de Moor as published by BD Must. The set holds 5 albums, 5 ex-libris and a dossier holding a couple of previously unreleased stories in an album format. You can order Cori le moussaillon - intégrale [5 albums + 5 ex-libris + dossier] now on Amazon.
Read MoreThis Bob de Moor drawing was used as starting point for the fly-leaf ('page de garde' in french) of the hardcover versions of the Barelli albums. And it was also re-used in print ads, with and without extra characters added.
Read More1987 Test drawing by Bob de Moor for the album "Le trésor du brigand" for the Oncle Zigomar series.
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