Pieter Bruegel the Elder seen through the eyes of Bob De Moor (Part 1)

In 1979 and 1980 the Stripcentrum Karel Driesen, aka SDK, released a series of postcards including work by Franquin, Willy Vandersteen, Marc Sleen and also Bob De Moor. The postcards nowadays fetches up to 35 Euros, depending on the comic author featured, nevertheless they are not that widely known, at least not to the big public. [caption id="attachment_1463" align="alignleft" width="300"] The cartoon as

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Hold-up cartoon by Bob De Moor from the 60s

In 1975 issue 3 of the magazine Stripklub Nieuwsblad (one of the many publications by Karel Driesen) dedicated 7 of its 16 pages (yes, it indeed was really a very small magazine) to Bob De Moor. But it must be said that these pages did include quite a lot of material which you will never find elsewhere. The cartoon we

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Inside joking with Bob De Moor and Karel Driesen

[caption id="attachment_756" align="alignleft" width="291"] Karel Driesen as Napoleon[/caption] In the 70s a series of supporters of the Flemish comic world started organizing events and publishing magazines. The eccentric comic fanatic Karel Driesen (often misspelled with double 's') was one of those (colorful) people. Driesen, a close friend of Willy Vandersteen, started 'Stripcentrum Karel Driesen' through which he published several magazines

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