The sketch for Lefranc’s ‘Le repaire du loup’ cover of the Journal Tintin of April 21st, 1970

In 1970 the Journal Tintin started with the pre-publication of the Lefranc album "Le repaire du loup". As you all know, this album was drawn by Bob De Moor under guidance of Jacques Martin. The 4th album in the Lefranc series would surprisingly only be released some 4 years later by Casterman. [caption id="attachment_1449" align="alignleft" width="209"] The sketch as made

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Bob De Moor explains how he worked on ‘The lake of Sharks’ animation film (The Johannes Stawowy Archives – Part 4)

Johannes Stawowy's personal archives of Bob De Moor‘s visit to Mülheim, Germany back in 1986 keep on revealing their secrets. Today we received some further material which Bob De Moor drew during the Q&A session in March 1986. As you might remember, In this article we showed you a photograph of Bob De Moor explaining how he worked on the "Lake of

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The genesis of the cult car Citroen traction avant 22 model drawing by Bob De Moor (part 3)

In the past few months we dedicated 2 articles to the cover drawing which Bob De Moor completed in August 1992 for the 1994 publication "La 22, Enquête sur une mystérieuse Citroën". The book, written by Hervé Laronde and Fabien Sabatès and published via the French publisher Rétroviseur, features the very last drawing Bob De Moor would complete before succumbing

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1954 Snoe en Snolleke album ‘De zwarte draak’ finally to be released in original version in 2015

Good news reaches us from the Brabant Strip headquarters. The team behind Brabant Strip have been able to find the original newspaper clippings of the 1954 Snoe and Snolleke story "De zwarte draak" ("The black dragon") during a foray at the Vossenplein in Brussels. [caption id="attachment_1424" align="alignleft" width="300"] Notice the difference in language in both versions.[/caption] This re-edition is important for

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A 1962 cartoon featuring a priest and his ‘churchavan’…

In 1962 Bob De Moor was one of the winners of what we suppose was the 'Kartoenale', a yearly cartoon evenment in Knokke-Heist (at the Belgian coast) which was organised for the very first time in 1962. The cartoon we show you today was the cartoon that made him win that year. [caption id="attachment_1414" align="alignleft" width="300"] The priest on holiday with

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Hobbel & Sobbel in colour or in black & white?

From issue 14 on (1947), the weekly youth magazine KZV aka Kleine Zondagsvriend started publishing the stories from Hobbel & Sobbel. Unlike many other older series from Bob De Moor, this one was - just like Bart de Scheepsjongen - partially published in colour (and partially in grey tones and partially in black and white) when it appeared in the

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Bob De Moor congratulates Christiane & Charly in 1990!

On September 22nd 1990, Christiane De Meulenaere & Charly Collin married and especially for the occasion Bob De Moor created a drawing which was used to congratulate the newly wed couple. The connection with the family De Moor is the following, Christiane De Meulenaere is the sister of Luc De Meulenaere, husband of Annemie De Moor, daughter of Bob De

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