Bob de Moor

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Bob de Moor

Robert Frans Maria De Moor (born December 20, 1925 in Antwerp , † August 26, 1992 in Brussels ) was a Belgian comic artist .

Career

De Moor studied at the Brussels Art Academy, then worked on the animated films for the AFIM studio. From 1945 to 1947 he worked for the magazine Kleine Zondagsvriend . There he drew, among other things, the adventures of Hobbel en Sobbel - a clumsy professor and his equally dumb assistant.

From 1950 to 1951, de Moor drew the series De nieuwe avonturen van Tijl Uilenspiegel for the daily newspaper Nieuws van de Dag . A total of four album-length stories were created here. From 1951 de Moor also drew the series Nonkel Zigomar (later: Johan en Stefan ) for the same newspaper . Up to 1956, 15 album-long stories were written here.

At the same time, the series Barelli and Monsieur Tric were created for the Belgian comic magazine Tintin . In the Barelli series , the title character, an actor, experiences exciting adventures around the globe. In contrast, the short stories about Monsieur Tric tell of the misadventures of the main character in everyday life. Both series were continued by de Moor until the 1980s, although there were sometimes several years between the individual publications. The major interruptions were partly due to the fact that de Moor had also worked as an employee and right-hand man of the Belgian comic artist Hergé from 1951 .

For Hergé's Tintin and Struppi series , de Moor was responsible for the technical drawings, the landscape backgrounds, cityscapes, planes, ships and cars in the following decades, and he was later supported in his work by Roger Leloup and Jacques Martin . He was also involved in the processing and modernization of the Tintin stories that had been written in the 1930s . After all, he was responsible for marketing the figures Tintin and Struppi insofar as he drew model templates, advertising leaflets and the like.

In 1989, de Moor took over the position of art director at the Le Lombard publishing house . In the same year he completed a volume in the Blake and Mortimer series .

Other works (selection)

In addition to the series mentioned in the previous paragraph, de Moor produced a number of other comics and series, only a few of which are known in German. Some should be named here to give a small impression of the versatility of this illustrator:

  • Bart de scheepsjongen (1945–1946), forerunner to Cori, the cabin boy
  • Inspector Marks (1946–1947)
  • The funny Kapoentjes (1947-1949)
  • Willem de Vrijbuiter [later: Willem Koelbloed] (1947–1950)
  • Dat special Pimpeltje (1948)
  • Bloske en Zwik (1948–1949)
  • Janneke en Stanneke (1948–1949)
  • Het wonderschip (1949)
  • De slaven van de keizer (1949)
  • Het halssnoer met de groene smaragd (1949)
  • Mieleke en Dof [later: Fee en Fonske] (1949–1951)
  • The Vlaanderen trilogy, consisting of the volumes De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (1949), Sterke Jan (1951) and De kerels van Vlaanderen (1952)
  • Cori, the cabin boy (1951–1993)
  • De zoetwaterpiraten (1959)
  • Balthazar (1965-1967)
  • L. Frank Volume 4: Le repaire du loup (1970), scenario: Jacques Martin

German publications

In the 1950s, Bob de Moor's comics appeared in series such as Dalla and Miggis Kinderpost . In the 1960s, his series Balthasar was included in the Swiss publication Tim . In 1972 there were two gags from Balthasar in Zack . In addition to his contributions to the L. Frank and Blake and Mortimer series (one volume each), the following albums are particularly noteworthy:

  • Barelli (4 volumes), Carlsen 1983–1984
  • Cori, the cabin boy (4 volumes), Feest 1987–1991
  • Cori, the cabin boy (5 volumes), BD Must 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See reprints from 1982 and 1983, listed on Stripinfo.be
  2. ↑ See the reprint from 1984, listed on Stripinfo.be
  3. ↑ Michel de Grand Ry, in: Monsieur Tric et Cie
  4. ↑ bdoubliees: Barelli (French)
  5. ↑ bdoubliees: Monsieur Tric (French)
  6. ↑ Kristian Mahnke, p. 44 ff., In Reddition 29
  7. ↑ See Bob de Moor Index
  8. ↑ Comic Guide: Tim
  9. ↑ Volker Hamann, p. 76 ff., In Reddition 29
  10. ↑ Comic Guide: Bob de Moor
personal data
SURNAME Moor, Bob de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moor, Robert Frans Marie De (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1992
Place of death Brussels