From 1977 (starting on 22/11/1977) to 1978 Bob De Moor saw his reboot of the Cori saga, "L'Invincible Armada - Les Espions de la Reine", published in Nouveau Tintin, Eppo, Junior, ... The cover used to announce this brilliant first part of the rebooted Cori saga on the first glance looks exactly the same as the one used for the
Read MoreThe Belgian city of Temse (East Flanders) is known as a comic capital thanks to a collaboration between the cultural association Spirit and the local authority. Over the years Temse has celebrated various comic authors such as Willy Vandersteen, Morris, Paul Geerts, Jef Nys, Merho, Karel Biddeloo, POM, Willy Linthout, Hec Leemans, Jeff Broeckx, Jan Bosschaert, Jean-Pol, Jean Graton, Steve
Read MoreIn 1958 the French edition of the weekly Tintin magazine celebrated its 10th anniversary. Raymond Leblanc wanted to thank his staff and invited them to go out eating in Paris. Place and time was the Ritz Hotel on December 15th, 1958. [caption id="attachment_917" align="alignleft" width="190"] The drawings as made at the Ritz Hotel in Paris on December 15th 1958.[/caption] During that
Read MoreIn 1986 Raymond Leblanc's Tintin magazine existed 40 years. Lots of extra drawings were made that year by Bob De Moor and others to celebrate this event (and we'll get back on this subject later on). But not all drawings were meant for general publication because several comic authors also decided to send personal greetings to Raymond Leblanc. One of
Read MoreCatawiki has a rather weird Bob De Moor item listed since April 2013, namely a cover Bob De Moor would have drawn for a calendar back in 1946. [caption id="attachment_905" align="alignleft" width="220"] The item as listed on Catawiki[/caption] The story goes that in 1946 Bob De Moor was asked to create the frontcover of a 1947 youth calendar to be published
Read MoreIn 1986 Bob De Moor created a drawing which the organisation of the Angoulême Comics Festival used on a numbered postcard distributed for the occasion (and probably also posters, but we didn't find any trace back of these so far). Alain Demaret kindly enough sent us a full scan of that card. On that postcard you see a young couple in
Read MoreOn August 4 you could already read how Bob De Moor was asked to help out the Vandersteen heirs when in 1991 a republication of the Tijl Uilenspiegel story "Opstand der Geuzen" via the Standaard Uitgeverij was imminent. As we explained in that article De Moor’s help was needed because the Vandersteen Studios could no longer locate the original drawings
Read MoreIn March we reported about quite a rare item that was (and still is) being sold on eBay for the ridiculous sum of € 55: a promotional poster in French, commissioned by the Citroën Garage Royen in Woluwe, Belgium. Although we didn't succeed in convincing the owner to have the original drawing scanned, we did manage to lay our hands on
Read MoreHere'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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