A few weeks ago I came across a drawing which depicted a scene on an exotic beach with 3 cabin boys opening a treasure chest. The scene was adorned with Nesquik banners on the left and right and was clearly made to be part of a display. The drawing itself was on sale as being from Johan De Moor. However,
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"De Leeuw van Vlaanderen", probably one of the best known (and appreciated) album ever created by Bob De Moor has seen several reeditions overtime since it's creation almost 70 years ago. Bob De moor always took care of the cover artwork which changed with almost every edition. However, when in 2002 the BCB (Belgisch Centrum van het Beeldverhaal) and the
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In March 1999 a black and white version of the Snoe and Snolleke album "De Witte Maw-Maw" saw the light of day. It was a collaboration between 3 comic strip festivals and the Brussels based Enigma publishing house and it seems they had really big plans keeping the Bob De Moor fans busy for quite some time collecting all the
Read MoreFrom September 2 through September 4 you can visit the Brussels Comic Strip Festival in the Brussels park. The festival has been celebrating comics of all kinds in Brussels since 2010, and welcomes more than 100,000 visitors each year. Young or old, amateur or specialist, there is always something for everyone among the many activities on offer. For the 2016
Read MoreFrom 1 February 1954 until 25 May 1954 the newspapers De Nieuwe Gids, De Antwerpse and ’t Vrije Volksblad published the Snoe & Snolleke story "Het geheim van Vulcania". The album has since the publication in 1954 never been published in album format, at least not in its original form, black and white that is. In 1993 the album saw
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 MoreAs you all know, Citroën was a brand of cars which always have had a special place in the over of Bob De Moor. The Citroën cars pop up in almost every Barelli album plus he also made a special Citroën cover for the book “La 22, Enquête sur une mystérieuse Citroën” by Hervé Laronde and Fabien Sabatès published by
Read MoreWith over 12 people killed and several severely injured during a terrorist raid by Islam extremists on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, January 7th, 2015 will go into history as the 9/11 of art. So far the shooting cost the lives of 5 cartoonists: Charb, Cabu, Wolinski, Philippe Honoré and Tignous. [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="273"] Johan De Moor's
Read MoreOn December 31st 1954, the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag (not to be confounded with the Dutch newspaper De Courant/Nieuws van de Dag) announced a brand new story of Bob De Moor's 'De avonturen van Nonkel Zigomar, Snoe en Snolleke': "Het Mollenrijk". It would take 26 years before it would be released in an album format - in french
Read MoreOn March 9 1983 the Flemish satirical weekly De Zwijger (English: The silent one) invited several comic authors for a tribute to Hergé who had passed away the week before on March 3. For the occasion De Zwijger invited such comic authors as Theo van den Boogaard, Luc Zeebroek (which is another nickname for Kamagurka), Jan, Kamagurka, Mark Smeets, Quirit, Luk Vandevijver,
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