Robert de Groot (26 October 1941 – 17 November 2023) was a Belgian comic books artist and writer.
Career While still a young art student de Groot got his first comics experience as an assistant to Maurice Tillieux on Félix. He began creating shorter work for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote, with creators such as Hubuc, Reiser. With Fred as scenarist he drew the strip 4 × 8 = 32 L'Agent Caméléon in the late 1960s. When the artist Turk joined to assist on the series, de Groot gradually took on increasing amounts of work as scenarist and went on to collaborate with Turk on several series, including Archimède, Robin Dubois and eventually Raymond Macherot's Clifton. They also created the character Léonard for Achille Talon magazine in 1974,"Achille Talon Magazine en 1974" – bdoubliees.com before de Groot began a prolific production of comics scenarios for many comics artists, including Tibet, Dupa, Philippe Francq, Greg and Dany. With Rodrigue he created Doggyguard and continued the Clifton series, and with Morris he collaborated on stories for Lucky Luke and Rantanplan.
Death Bob de Groot died at Ottignies on 17 November 2023, at the age of 82.Léonard est orphelin : l'auteur de BD belge Bob De Groot est décédé
Bibliography SeriesYearsVolumesScenarist or ArtistEditorRemarksAlice au pays des merveilles19731Greg (writer)Le Lombard and DargaudArtwork in collaboration with Dany, Dupa and TurkÇa vous intéresse19901Dany (artist)P & T ProductionsThis volume written by De Groot, rest of series by different writersChlorophylle1977–19863Dupa and Walli (artists)Le LombardSeries started by Raymond MacherotClifton1973–19849Turk (artist)Le Lombard and DargaudSeries started by Raymond MacherotDes villes et des femmes1987–19882Philippe Francq (artist)DargaudDigitaline19891J. Landrain (artist)Le LombardFirst bande dessinée completely made by computerDoggyguard1999–20003M. Rodrigue (artist)Le Lombard
Footnotes
Sources
Bob de Groot publications in Spirou , Pilote , Vaillant and Pif , Belgian Tintin and French Tintin , 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, Den Haag, 1998.
External links
Bob de Groot biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia