Janneke en Stanneke, a 1948 series by Bob De Moor never published in album format (except for one story)

Janneke en Stanneke, a 1948 series by Bob De Moor never published in album format (except for one story)

In 1948 en 1949 a new Bob De Moor (under the Artec Studios flag) series saw a publication: 'Janneke en Stanneke'. It was the weekly comic strip publication 't Kapoentje which published the different stories. 'Stories' because many people think that there is only one Janneke en Stanneke story, namely the one which in the end got re-published for the

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Willem (Koelbloed) De Vrijbuiter in colour

On October 1948 't Kapoentje published the final page of "Willem De Vrijbuiter" (later renamed "Willem Koelbloed" for the publication in De Volksmacht in 1949) which was one of the more realistic stories Bob De Moor would create in his early career and which together with for instance "De Verklikker" (KZV 1949) would form a test platform for his Flemish Trilogy

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Working hard with Bob De Moor in 1949

By the end of July 1949 Bob De Moor agreed to start working for the Tintin weekly, first as a layout assistant to Evany aka Eugène Van Nyverseel, and this 2 days per week. More than 3 days would be overkill as Bob De Moor knew, because he was around that time busy with - take a seat - 12

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