The windmill by Bob De Moor, 1947

In the past few months we have described several paintings which Bob De Moor painted in 1947 such as the smoking kid, a still life and a winter landscape. Today we show you a watercolour painting which we discovered in the archives of Ludo Van Looveren, a nephew of Bob De Moor, and son of John Van Looveren (Artec Studios).

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Bob De Moor’s Monsieur Tric/Troc featured in the book ‘Les archives Goscinny : Le journal Tintin, 1956-1961’

In June 1998 the French editor Vents d'Ouest released the first volume in a series which would unlock the René Goscinny archives: "Les archives Goscinny : Le journal Tintin, 1956-1961". As the title explains the book gives you an insight in the work Goscinny did for the Tintin Journal in the period 1956-1961. As many know Goscinny also worked on

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Le grand nettoyage, a 1945 cartoon by Bob De Moor

When World War 2 ends in Europe in 1945 with the German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union in late April and early May 1945, Bob De Moor was probably among the first ones to celebrate this. For years he had been waiting for the allies to liberate Europe and in the final months he had also

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Bob De Moor’s Cori as seen by Michel Pierret in 1981

To celebrate the 35 years of the Tintin Journal in 1981, the younger generation of Tintin comic artists was asked to create their version of the older generation’s work. The results were published under “Brouiller les cartes” in a special of Tintin Journal, issue 39 of 1981. 3 pages were dedicated to Bob De Moor’s work. We already showed you

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Barelli dissected – the sketch and the final version of ‘Barelli in bruisend Brussel’ (part 1)

Geert De Sutter sent us a few scanned pages of the preliminary sketches Bob De Moor made. The scans exist because Bob De Moor always asked that Geert De Sutter would make A3 copies of the sketches before to start working on them. The page we show you today is the first page of the “Barelli in bruisend Brussel” album. [caption id="attachment_1505"

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