In July 1950 Barelli appeared for the very first time in the Journal Tintin ("L'enigmatique monsieur Barelli" Tintin, 30/1950 - 9/1951). This makes that Barelli has just celebrated his 70th birthday. Below is the first page as it was published in the Journal Tintin. And this can not go unnoticed of course. BD Must is now releasing a special anniversary
Read MoreAs we reported a while back, the Brussels based editor BD Must is working on the re-release of Bob De Moor's Flemish Trilogy which consists of these 3 albums: “Le Lion des Flandres” ("De Leeuw van Vlaanderen" in Dutch), “Les gars de Flandre” ("De Kerels van Vlaanderen" in Dutch) and “Conrad le Hardi” (“Sterke Jan” in Dutch). [caption id="attachment_1612" align="alignleft" width="143"]
Read MoreWhen Jean-Michel Boxus, boss of the Brussels based editor BD Must, started work on the reissue of the Monsieur Tric albums (available here), he also decided to include all of the Monsieur/Professeur Tric/Troc stories which never had been published before in album format. The stories concerned are the ones which never had been published as a one page story in
Read MoreA few days ago we showed you a first glimpse on the work done by BD Must for the re-release of the Flandres Trilogy by Bob De Moor which consists of the 3 albums “Le Lion des Flandres” ("De Leeuw van Vlaanderen"), “Les gars de Flandre” ("De Kerels van Vlaanderen") and “Conrad le Hardi” (“Sterke Jan”). We then showed you a
Read MoreWhen we interviewed Jean-Michel Boxus from BD Must in April 2014 he told us that he - amongst other things Bob De Moor related - planned to re-release the Flandres Trilogy which consists of the 3 albums “Le Lion des Flandres”, “Les gars de Flandre” and “Conrad le Hardi”. Today we received a first look on the restoration for one
Read MoreA week ago Alain Demaret passed us a black/white version of the "Le Seigneur de Gonobutz" ("The Lord of Gonobutz") album as prepublished in Le Soir. We presume this was in 1976 as there was also a prepublication of the story in Journal Tintin of 1976. This black and white publication had quite some hick-ups. Today we'll discuss one already,
Read MoreFrom 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 More[caption id="attachment_477" align="alignleft" width="213"] De cover as drawn by Johan De Moor[/caption] From 5 January 1956 till 29 Februari 1956, the daily newspaper De Nieuwe Gids (and related titles) published the Uncle Zigomar story "De Sprekende Wandelstok" (Eng: "The Talking Cane"). The story was the 15th and last volume in the series, and unlike other Uncle Zigomar stories it never
Read More[caption id="attachment_275" align="alignleft" width="203"] As it appeared in the Swiss monthly magazine Miggis Kinderpost in 1957.[/caption] Olivier Marin (comic artist known from his 'Les enquêtes auto de Margot' series) sent us this lovely frontpage from the Swiss monthly magazine Miggis Kinderpost which took over material from the Tintin Journal. The same drawing also appeared in the Tintin journal of course.
Read More[caption id="attachment_253" align="alignleft" width="217"] The first Cori volume is now also colored.[/caption] If you can now find the Barelli, Monsieur Tric or Cori albums in excellent hardcover editions, then that is largely due to the small Belgian editor BD Must éditions who took it upon themselves to start reissuing the work from Bob de Moor. Since 2001 the Brussels based editor
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