Alfred Mazure

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Alfred Leonardus Mazure (born September 8, 1914 in Nijmegen , † February 16, 1974 in London ) was a Dutch author and cartoonist .

life and work

Mazure published his first comic, who had received no drawing or artistic training, in 1932 in the Dutch newspapers Nieuwe Utrechtse Courant and De Prins . In the following years he toured the Balkans and Africa and only resumed working with De Prins after his return to the Netherlands in 1938 . The Dick Bos series, drawn by him under the pseudonym Maz , which first appeared in De Prins in 1940 , was a great commercial success, the basis for several cartoons and fiction films and has been translated into various languages. After Mazure failed to comply with the German occupying power's request that Dick Bos confess to fascism , the series was discontinued and could only be continued after the Second World War .

In 1946 Mazure moved to England and worked there for various newspapers and magazines. For the British market Mazure drew a number of series and strips, for example from 1954 to the daily strip Romeo Brown published in the Daily Mirror , which he gave to Jim Holdaway in 1957 . Jane, daughter of Jane , also appeared in the Daily Mirror between 1961 and 1963 . In addition to his drawing activity, Mazure wrote over 20 novels and several satirical books.

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SURNAME Mazure, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mazure, Alfred Leonardus; Maz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Nijmegen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1974
Place of death London