Today I present you a rather rare item which I found in the archives of the family De Moor. [caption id="attachment_1690" align="alignleft" width="300"] Water colour on paper. Notice the B in the bottom right corner.[/caption] The undated drawing is very unlike Bob De Moor as you can see. The realistically drawn scene represents a war scene with a US soldier
Read MoreBetween 1949 and 1951 Ons Volkske featured the adventures of Fee & Fonske under the name "De Fratsen van Fee en Fonske" (which would also appear as "De avonturen van Mieleke en Dolf" both in Kuifje Weekblad... and Ons Volkse), see also our article "Mieleke & Dolf / Bouboule & Noiraud make their entry in 1949". As you can see,
Read MoreDuring the Christmas period following Bob De Moor's death in 1992, his wife Jeanne De Belder sent out a Christmas Card with a drawing De Moor had made in the late 50ies / early 60ies. It's was Luc De Meulenaere who tipped me off on this particular card. While cruising through the archives of the family De Moor one drawing
Read MoreA few months ago we wrote that the team behind Brabant Strip had been able to find the original newspaper clippings of the 1954 Snoe and Snolleke story "De zwarte draak" ("The black dragon"). We now can confirm that the re-edition - in its complete version including the 4 missing strips from the Standaard Uitgeverij version - will be released as Fenix 110 by the
Read MoreOn October 1948 't Kapoentje published the final page of "Willem De Vrijbuiter" (later renamed "Willem Koelbloed" for the publication in De Volksmacht in 1949) which was one of the more realistic stories Bob De Moor would create in his early career and which together with for instance "De Verklikker" (KZV 1949) would form a test platform for his Flemish Trilogy
Read MoreLast year we wrote about a significant difference in a sequence of Bob De Moor's Snoe & Snolleke album “Het Mollenrijk” as published in the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag and the version of the albums as published by Bédéscope. The two versions were finally included in one edition, that by Brabant Strip in 2003 (a highly recommended
Read MoreWhilst cruising through the archives of the family De Moor, I stumbled on a drawing which appeared to be a never published before front cover for a new french version of "Oorlog In Het Heelal". "Oorlog In Het Heelal" was originally created by Bob De Moor for the weekly magazine Ons Volk in 1949. It got 2 later publications, but
Read MoreOn April 11, 1946 the weekly lifestyle magazine Zondagsvriend would published a story called "Een dolle weddenschap" (English for “A foolish bet”) featuring a cowboy who accepts the challenge to jump out of a balloon with a parachute. The drawing there indicated that Bob De Moor was very familiar with drawing cowboys. Not very surprising because one of the earliest
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