Bob de Groot is a Belgian comics artist and writer, born on 26 October 1941 in

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, to Dutch and French parents.

Career

While still a young art student de Groot got his first comics experience as an assistant to

Maurice Tillieux Maurice Tillieux (7 August 1921 – 2 February 1978) was a Belgian writer and comic artist. He is regarded by many as a major figure of post-war Belgian comics. Early life Maurice Tillieux was born in Huy in 1921. At first he studied for the ...

on ''Félix''. He began creating shorter work for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''

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'', with creators such as Hubuc, Reiser. With

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as scenarist he drew the strip ''4 × 8 = 32 L'Agent Caméléon'' in the late 60s. When the artist Turk joined to assist on the series, de Groot gradually took on increasing amounts of work as

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and went on to collaborate with Turk on several series, including ''Archimède'', ''Robin Dubois'' and eventually

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's Clifton. They also created '' Léonard'' for ''

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'' magazine in 1975, before de Groot began a prolific production of comics scenarios for many comics artists, including

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Dupa Luc Dupanloup, more famous under his pen name Dupa, was a Belgian comics artist best known as the creator of Cubitus which later was turned into an animated series called ''Wowser''. He was born on 12 February 1945 in Montignies-sur-Sambre and d ...

Philippe Francq Philippe Francq (; born 13 December 1961) is a Franco-Belgian comics, Belgian comic book artist, best known for the series ''Largo Winch''. Biography Philippe Francq was born in Etterbeek in 1961.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Philippe Francq". In Be ...

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and Dany. With Rodrigue he created ''Doggyguard'' and continued the ''Clifton'' series, and with

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he collaborated on stories for ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Bibliography

Sources

Bob de Groot publications in ''Spirou''
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BDoubliées * Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe (2002): "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 2003–2004". Paris, Les éditions de l'amateur. * Matla, Hans: "Stripkatalogus 9: De negende dimensie". Panda,

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, 1998. ;Footnotes

External links

Bob de Groot biography
on Lambiek Comiclopedia 1941 births Living people Artists from Brussels Belgian comics artists Belgian comics writers Belgian humorists Belgian people of Dutch descent Belgian people of French descent {{Europe-comics-creator-stub