[caption id="attachment_606" align="alignleft" width="208"] The front of the 1984 B-day card.[/caption] In 1984 Le Lombard asked Bob De Moor to create a 'Happy Birthday' card. It was one of several which he would make for Le Lombard in the eighties and would underline his good relations with the publisher. It's no coincidence that after he completed "Mortimer contre Mortimer" in
Read More[caption id="attachment_598" align="alignleft" width="207"] The cover for Tintin, issue 43, 1950.[/caption] Update: we have been informed by Olivier Marin that the original black and white drawing as you can see in this article no longer exists as the owner of the drawing had it colored by a Studio Hergé colorist somewhere in the 80s. On 26 October 1950 the Tintin
Read More[caption id="attachment_594" align="alignleft" width="249"] The original final case on page 7.[/caption] In the first edition of the Blake and Mortimer album "Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer" (1990) Bob De Moor drew the last case of page 7 in a rather awkward way. You can see Captain Francis Blake running into 2 other people, but something just
Read More[caption id="attachment_580" align="alignleft" width="300"] The frontcover of the booklet[/caption] In 1985 'Le Théâtre de l'Esprit Frappeur' produced the comedy-musical "Marilyn et Staline vont en avion". The piece was written by Thierry van Eyll and François Rauber and directed by Albert-André Lheureux with music by François Rauber. It played at the Brussels -based Botanique venue and had a 20-page booklet with a
Read MoreThe 1979 hardcover edition by Jonas - Archives Family De Moor In 1949 Flemish journalist and writer Gaston Durnez - who at that time worked at the daily newspaper De Nieuwe Gids - was asked to write a scenario for a comic based on the life of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the
Read More[caption id="attachment_565" align="alignleft" width="247"] You'll notice that originally the moon was placed behind Sterke Jan holding up the timber after which De Moor moved it to the left.[/caption] In 1950, Karel Van Milleghem, the energetic editor-in-chief of Kuifje, the Flemish (dutch written) version of the Tintin weekly, asked Bob De Moor to adapt the Constant de Kinder novel "De wonderlijke lotgevallen van
Read MoreOn January 10th 1979 Bob De Moor made a special drawing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tintin. Little would he know that the 1976 album "Tintin and the Picaros" would be the last ever completed. In the drawing you see Bob De Moor's own characters Monsieur Tric and Cori having Tintin on their shoulders while Barelli and Balthazar hold
Read MoreIn 1959 the Tintin Journal published the Bob De Moor story "Pirates D'eau Douce" / "De Zoetwaterpiraten" in the issues 26 till 40. The one-off story of 30 pages featured the adventures of Dic, Vic & Mic (Dik, Vik, Mik in the dutch version). On the flemish side, De Moor would see the story published in Ons Volkske (from issue
Read More[caption id="attachment_553" align="alignleft" width="237"] Copyright © Hergé / Moulinsart[/caption] Bob De Moor has done more filmposters than the one for Robbe De Hert's "Janssen and Janssens" in 1989. 5 years earlier, in 1984, he made the filmposter for "Tonnerre De Brest, Silence! - L'âge d'or de la BD Belge 1929-1950". The belgian film, directed by Armand Zaninetta and Didier Bastien,
Read MoreBécassine as Bob De Moor visualized it - Copyright © Family De Moor In 1962 (1963?) Bob De Moor was asked to take over the popular French Bécassine series. Although he completed several test drawings, Hergé objected to Bob De Moor's plan to pursue the series. Eventually, Bob De Moor would decline the offer (pressured by Hergé). This morning Luc De Meulenaere, husband
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