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 ''

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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 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

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's '' Clifton''. They also created the character

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for '' Achille Talon magazine'' in 1974, before de Groot began a prolific production of comics scenarios for many comics artists, including

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, Dupa, Philippe Francq, Greg and Dany. With Rodrigue he created ''Doggyguard'' and continued the ''Clifton'' series, and with Morris he collaborated on stories for ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Death

Bob de Groot died at

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on 17 November 2023, at the age of 82.Léonard est orphelin : l'auteur de BD belge Bob De Groot est décédé

Bibliography

Footnotes

Sources

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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.

External links

Bob de Groot biography
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