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.
Read MoreToday's article was triggered by a mail we got from Petja van den Hurk who pointed us towards this blogpost by Peter Velter on the Joost Swarte website. The article recalled an aborted project from 1975 to unite a number of comics by well known underground authors in one album. But although the project never got realised, Velter did compile
Read MoreIn 1989 Haarlem born Rob Harren (Lombard Nederland) was asked to put Le Lombard back on the rails and especially make sure that their comic authors got pre-publications, something which until today is key to get a (new) comic series off the ground. He contacted Bob De Moor and Belgian comics writer and mystery novelist André-Paul Duchâteau to join Le Lombard
Read More[caption id="attachment_702" align="alignleft" width="212"] Issue 1 of Jet, published in January 1990[/caption] In January 1990 Lombard launched a brand new comic talent seeking magazine for the french speaking and dutch speaking market: Jet. The plan was to release 10 issues every year. The issues were sold separately for more or less € 3,40 or for € 28,20 if you chose
Read MoreOut on the 22nd of August is the brand new album, "Coeur Glacé" (Eng. "Ice cold heart") by Johan De Moor, son of Bob De Moor, on a scenario by Gilles Dal. The video which Le Lombard has put online is a real pearl as far as promoting a comic album is concerned and shows that Johan De Moor has
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