Martin Lodewijk

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Martinus Spyridon Johannes Lodewijk (born April 30, 1939 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch comic and advertising artist and comic author.

Lodewijk dropped out of high school in 1957 and began drawing comics, mainly space and pirate stories. His first comic series Babel en Knetterton appeared as well as the science fiction series Dick Harris that same year. In 1958 the pirate series Arendt Brandt followed . The comic strip Frank, de Vgende Hollander , which appears in the daily newspaper Het Parool , was taken over by Lodewijk in 1959 from Piet Wijn. Before he published the first Agent 327 story in 1966 , which he presented to Pep magazine on the advice of Jan Kruis , Lodewijk worked for six years as an advertising artist. In 1976 Lodewijk became editor-in-chief of Eppo magazine , which arose from the merger of Pep and Sjors . Agent 327's stories continued there as well.

Lodewijk later wrote scenarios, including for Don Lawrence ' Storm and René Follet's Edmund Bell, as well as for the series January Jones . Since 2005 he has been the scriptwriter of the series De Rode Ridder ( The Red Knight ), which was invented by Willy Vandersteen in 1959 . The subscribed by Bart van Erkel comic De Kat (dt. The Cat in Katendrecht ) and drawn by John Burns comic Zetari , both with scenarios of Lodewijk were indicated shortly after its publication in Germany. The indexing has been automatically canceled since 2011 and 2012.

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  1. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge (Ed.): Comic Jahrbuch 1989 . Ullstein Verlag , Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-548-36565-5 , pp. 373, 375 .
  2. ↑ Comic Guide: The Cat in Katendrecht
  3. ↑ Comic Guide: Zetari
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SURNAME Lodewijk, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lodewijk, Martinus Spyridon Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam