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Jacob Cornelis (Jaap) Vegter (21 June 1932, Voorburg - 14 January 2003, The Hague) [1] was a Dutch cartoonist. He was the winner of the 1979 Stripschapprijs. [2]
Jacob Cornelis (Jaap) Vegter (21 June 1932, Voorburg - 14 January 2003, The Hague) [1] was a Dutch cartoonist. He was the winner of the 1979 Stripschapprijs. [2]
Mark Retera is a Dutch cartoonist, best known for his absurd gag comic DirkJan. He is the winner of the 2004 Stripschapprijs. He also draws caricatures for the Dutch weekly Panorama.
Erik Kriek is a Dutch artist and the winner of the 2008 Stripschapprijs. He writes and draws the comic book, Gutsman. In addition to his work he collects banjos and plays in a bluegrass band.
The Stripschapprijs is a Dutch prize awarded to comic creators for their entire body of work. It is awarded annually by the Stripschap, the Dutch Society of comics fans, since 1974. The prize is non-pecuniary, but is considered the most important award for comics in the country.
Jaap is a Dutch given name that is short for Jacob or Jacobus. People with this name include:
Jesse van Muylwijck is a Dutch cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2010 Stripschapprijs.
Barbara Stok is a Dutch cartoonist, best known for her graphic novel Vincent.
Aloys Oosterwijk is a Dutch cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2007 Stripschapprijs. Since 1996 he publishes a weekly comic strip Willems Wereld in the Dutch magazine Panorama. Oosterwijk is also known as a courtroom sketch artist.
Gerard Leever is a Dutch cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2006 Stripschapprijs.
Jan Steeman was a Dutch comics artist, best known for his association football comic Roel Dijkstra and Noortje, a comic strip about a bumbling teenage girl published in Tina. The latter runs for more than 40 years in succession, making it the longest-running Dutch comic strip by the self-same artist. His scriptwriter for Noortje was Patty Klein while his son Lucas has taken over the comic. Steeman won the 2005 Stripschapprijs. He died on 24 January 2018 from kidney failure.
Bastiaan Geleijnse is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is the winner of the 2004 Stripschapprijs for Fokke & Sukke, with John Reid and Jean-Marc van Tol.
Jean-Marc van Tol is a cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2004 Stripschapprijs for Fokke & Sukke, with John Reid and Bastiaan Geleijnse. He also played in the Dutch TV-series Wie is de mol.
Bernard Willem Holtrop is a Dutch cartoonist living in France since 1968, who publishes under the pen name Willem. He is renowned for his sometimes provocative cartoons featuring violent and sexual imagery on political topics. In 1968 two of his cartoons led to court cases, where he was, among others, accused of lèse-majesté for depicting queen Juliana of The Netherlands as a prostitute. In the end he was only sentenched for a cartoon criticizing police brutality by comparing it with Nazism. The events motivated Willem to move to France, where he still lives to this day. His work attacks religion, the monarchy, the far-right, the far-left, terrorism and war policies.
Peter Pontiac was a Dutch cartoonist, comics artist and illustrator. He was the winner of the 1997 Stripschapprijs. Pontiac died on 20 January 2015, after a lengthy battle with severe liver disease.
Hein de Kort is a Dutch cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1992 Stripschapprijs.
René Windig is a Dutch cartoonist, best known as a frequent collaborator with Eddie de Jong. Together they created the newspaper comic Heinz, about a grumpy sarcastic cat. They won the 1991 Stripschapprijs. They created the album covers for records by the rock band Rockin' Belly.
Eddie de Jong is a Dutch cartoonist, best known as a frequent collaborator with René Windig. Together they created the newspaper comic Heinz, about a grumpy sarcastic cat. They won the 1991 Stripschapprijs. They created the album covers for records by the rock band Rockin' Belly.
Evert Geradts is a Dutch cartoonist and former underground comics artist. He later became a prolific Disney comics writer and artist too. He is the winner with Leny Zwalve of the 1977 Stripschapprijs.
Vegter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pieternella Hendrika "Henny" Vegter is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented her country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Pusan. With Marion Bultman as crew, Vegter took the 13th place in the 470 Female. Vegter and Bultman were, with the exception of Mej. C. de Visser – substitute for the Star in 1936 –, the first female sailing competitors in the 88 years of Dutch Olympic sailing history.
Anne Vegter is a Dutch poet, playwright and writer of children's literature. She is the first woman to hold the position of Dichter des Vaderlands.
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