In the period 1982-1983 Bob De Moor created an extended version of the Barelli story “Barelli à Nusa-Penida” (volume 1 & 2), which was originally published back in 1951 for the Tintin Journal. The recreated versions were released in album format via Le Lombard with new/reworked pages and other cover artwork. And that's precisely what we will talk about this time.
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In 1981 the city of Clichy (a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France) organised it's 8th comic festival (from 12 til 14 June included). For the occasion Bob De Moor was a central guest together with Jean-Claude Fournier. Jean-Claude Fournier, known simply as Fournier, is a French cartoonist best known as the comic book artist who handled Spirou
Read MoreTo 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. A few days ago we presented you the first of 3 pages which
Read MoreGeert 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"
Read MoreToday we present you a detail which will very well explain how Bob De Moor and Geert De Sutter worked for creating the album "Barelli in bruisend Brussel" album. The detail was sent to us by Geert De Sutter a few weeks ago. The album itself originally was published in 1988 and reissued in 1989 and 1994. [caption id="attachment_1500" align="alignleft"
Read MoreIn November 2014 we presented you 2 articles based on Johannes Stawowy's archives of Bob De Moor's visit to Mülheim, Germany back in 1986, and more precisely the Q&A session which took place on March 14 & 15 of 1986. There is a lot more that can be told from this visit to Germany, so today we bring you part
Read MoreOn 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
Read MoreDuring the 60s and 70s, Lombard would publish several collections at a rather moderate price. The low price also had as a result that the French versions didn't come in the normal hardcover versions but - very unusual on the French speaking bookmarket - in a cheaper paperback version. The stories were often also shorter, 32 instead of 44 pages.
Read MoreIn the 1976 Barelli album "Le seigneur de Gonobutz" ("The Lord of Gonobutz") the military theme is omnipresent. The fact that Bob De Moor & Hergé just had finished the Tintin album "Tintin and the Picaros" isn't really strange to that. Also in the album by Hergé the military is omnipresent. Whereas Hergé tackled the South-American regimes (left and right), Bob De
Read More2 days ago we posted a drawing on which you can see Monsieur Tric saying: “Bonjour de Laponie! A Michel, bien cordialement“, signed Bob De Moor 1968. Today we not only replaced that drawing with a proper scan, but we can also offer you another drawing made by Bob De Moor for that same person, Michel X. The drawing was
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