{{short description|Belgian comics artist (1925–1992)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = Bob-de-moor-1357174668.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Robert Frans Marie De Moor | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1925|12|20}} | birth_place = Antwerp, Belgium | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1992|8|26|1925|12|20}} | death_place = Brussels, Belgium | nationality = Belgian | area = artist, writer | alias = | notable works = ''Cori, de Scheepsjongen'', ''The Adventures of Tintin''<br/>''Barelli''<br/>''Johan et Stephan'' | awards = full list }} '''Robert Frans Marie De Moor''' (20 December 1925 – 26 August 1992), better known under his pen name '''Bob de Moor''', was a Belgian comics creator. Chiefly noted as an artist, he is considered an early master of the Ligne claire style.<ref name="lambiek-demoor">{{cite web | last =Lambiek Comiclopedia | title =Bob de Moor | url =http://lambiek.net/artists/d/de-moor_bob.htm}}</ref> He wrote and drew several comics series on his own, but also collaborated with Hergé on several volumes of ''The Adventures of Tintin''. He completed the unfinished story ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer'' of the ''Blake and Mortimer'' series, after the death of the author Edgar P. Jacobs.
==Biography== Bob de Moor started drawing with pencil at three or four. Living in a port town, he developed a strong interest for drawing sailing ships which carried into his professional career with his Cori, de Scheepsjongen series and other work.<ref>Bourdil, Pierre-Yves and Tordeur, Bernard: "Bob de Moor. 40 ans de bande dessineée, 35 ans au côtés d'Hergé", pp. 14–5, Editions du Lombard, 1986</ref> Following studies at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, De Moor started his career at the Afim animations studios.<ref name="lambiek-demoor"/> His first album was written in 1944 for "De Kleine Zondagsvriend".<ref>''Coup de chapeau a Bob de Moor'', ''Tintin'' magazine, 1978</ref>
Beginning in March 1951, starting with ''Destination Moon'', he began a collaboration with Hergé on Tintin albums and Tintin-related material which included extensive work on sketch studies, backgrounds, layout, and ultimately animated films.
His co-worker Jacques Martin is quoted as saying that de Moor had an extraordinary facility to adapt himself to the style of others.<ref>Bourdil, Pierre-Yves and Tordeur, Bernard: "Bob de Moor. 40 ans de bande dessineée, 35 ans au côtés d'Hergé", pp. 91, Editions du Lombard, 1986</ref> This manifested itself in a seamless integration with Hergé's style, as well as in him being asked on occasion to complete the work of other artists.
De Moor illustrated the album cover of "A World of Machines" (1982) by the Belgian band The Machines.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bobdemoor.info/2014/04/23/when-bob-de-moor-and-the-machines-met/ | title=When Bob de Moor and the Machines met | Bob de Moor }}</ref>
His son Johan de Moor is also a cartoonist, and completed his father's last album, the fifth in the Cori le Moussaillon series, after his father's demise.
==Bob de Moor and Tintin== Bob de Moor worked at Studio Hergé from April 1951 to the end of 1986. For Hergé, he was the perfect assistant because he was one of the few who could draw his figures just as well or even better than himself. Among the most important works of de Moor on Tintin and Milou are:
'''·'''The complete redrawing and revision of the 7th Tintin-Adventure "The Black Island" (1965), for which de Moor was sent by Hergé to England and Scotland in 1962 to find or search for original locations. The cover is also drawn by Bob de Moor.
'''·''' While Hergé was on a trip in the summer of 1965, a reporter for the Swiss magazine ''L’illustré'' asked De Moor and Jacques Martin if any progress had been made on a new Tintin adventure. Without Hergé's knowledge, the pair created a fake page that they managed to pass off as a genuine extract from an unfinished Tintin book. The page was printed in the magazine, and Hergé - while initially upset - later relented and purchased the work.<ref>{{Cite web|last=bernard|title=The April Fools' joke by Jacques Martin and Bob de Moor in 1965 {{!}} Bob De Moor|url=https://www.bobdemoor.info/2014/04/01/the-april-fools-joke-by-jacques-martin-and-bob-de-moor-in-1965/|access-date=2020-12-23|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-01-18|title=LA FAUSSE PLANCHE DE TINTIN : L'HISTOIRE D'UNE MAUVAISE BLAGUE.|url=https://tintinomania.com/tintin-fausse-planche-herge|access-date=2020-12-23|website=TINTINOMANIA|language=fr-FR}}</ref>
'''·'''Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972). Bob de Moor drew and colorized the 47-page film album based on a scenario by Michel Greg.
'''·''' One of de Moor's most important works was the drawings for the 1976 album "Tintin and the Picaros". Although Hergé denied that the complete album was drawn at the drawing table by Bob de Moor, most of the drawings probably came from de Moor's hand.
==Bibliography== <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|right|230px|Cover of ''L'enigmatique monsieur Barelli'' (1956) one of de Moor's most notable solo projects{{dfc|8 September 2024|f7}} --> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Series ! Remarks |- | ''Johan en Stefan / Johan et Stephan'' | 9 volumes{{0}} |- | ''De raadselachtige meneer Barelli / L'énigmatique monsieur Barelli'' | 8 volumes |- | ''Cori, de Scheepsjongen / Cori le Moussaillon '' | 6 volumes |- | ''Professeur Troc / Monsieur Tric'' | 3 volumes |- | ''De avonturen van Nonkel Zigomar / Les aventures d'Oncle Zigomar''{{0}} |6 volumes |- |}
* 1949 ''Le Vaisseau Miracle'' * 1949 ''Guerre dans le Cosmos'', Ed. Coune * 1950 ''Le Lion de Flandre'', Ed. Deligne * 1950 ''L'Enigmatic Monsieur Barelli'', Ed. du Lombard * 1950 ''Monsieur Tric'', Ed. Bédéscope * 1951 ''Les Gars des Flandres'', Ed. Bédéscope * 1951 ''Conrad le Hardi'', Ed. Bédéscope * 1952 ''Barelli à Nusa-Penida'' * 1959 ''Les Pirates d'eau douce'' * 1964 ''Balthazar'' * 1966 ''Barelli et les agents secrets'', Ed. du Lombard * 1971 ''Le Repaire du loup'', Ed. Casterman * 1972 ''Barelli et le Bouddha boudant'', Ed. du Lombard * 1973 ''Bonne Mine à la mer'' (Barelli), Ed. du Lombard * 1974 ''Barelli et le seigneur de Gonobutz'' * 1978 ''Cori le Moussaillon: Les Espions de la Reine'', Ed. Casterman<ref>Titles cited in Bob de Moor biography in "Coup de chapeau a Bob de Moor", ''Tintin'' magazine, supplement to Issue 171, 1979.</ref>
==Sources== {{refbegin}} ;Footnotes {{Reflist}} * [http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/auteurs2/demoor.htm Bob de Moor publications in Belgian ''Tintin''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015181821/http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/auteurs2/demoor.htm |date=15 October 2007 }} and [http://bdoubliees.com/journaltintin/auteurs2/demoor.htm French ''Tintin''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016074457/http://bdoubliees.com/journaltintin/auteurs2/demoor.htm |date=16 October 2007 }} BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}} * [http://lejournaldetintin.free.fr/affiche.php?action=auteur&valeur=De%20Moor Bob de Moor index of ''Tintin'' and ''Kuifje'' covers] LeJournalDeTintin.free {{in lang|fr}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081204152041/http://www.bdparadisio.com/scripts/detail.cfm?Id=301 bdparadisio.com] {{in lang|fr}} * [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-434-BD-De-Moor-Bob.html De Moor bio], BD Gest' Bedetheque {{in lang|fr}} {{refend}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Bob De Moor}} * [http://lambiek.net/artists/d/de-moor_bob.htm Bob de Moor biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
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