Lodewijk Hartog van Banda (4 November 1916, in

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– 2 February 2006, in The Hague) was a Dutch

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writer.van Banda entry
Lambiek's ''Comiclopedia''. Accessed 20 January 2019. He lived in the

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during the 1930s and early 1940s; when the Netherlands went to war with German and then Japan, he was arrested for being a

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and ended up spending the war in an internment camp in Surinam called

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Working for the Toonder Studio, he co-wrote ''Aram'', ''Kappie'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and his own creation ''Koning Hollewijn''. When

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went to Ireland, Lo Hartog van Banda left the studio. Later he would write the scripts for comics such as ''Arad en Maya'', ''Arman en Ilva'', and ''Ambrosius''. ''Arman en Ilva'' was published widely in daily newspapers all across Europe. It was an eerie and disturbing science fiction future, with the young Arman and his blonde girlfriend Ilva troubleshooting for various potentates and space pirates. While not on missions, they were being seduced by people of both sexes whose wish was to assassinate them if they were to be refused.''The World Encyclopedia of Comics'', edited by

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, vol. 1 (Chelsea House, 1976). He wrote for the NOS television the TV series ''

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'', ''De Astronautjes'', and '' De Bereboot''. In 1975 he won the Dutch

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, a prize awarded to comic writers and cartoonists for their career work. Outside the Netherlands he is probably best known for his three ''

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'' stories, ''Fingers'', ''Nitroglycérine'', and ''Chasse aux fantômes''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartog Van Banda, Lo 1916 births 2006 deaths Dutch comics artists Dutch comics writers Dutch comic strip cartoonists Dutch science fiction writers Dutch screenwriters Dutch male screenwriters Dutch television writers Dutch television show creators Writers from The Hague 20th-century Dutch screenwriters Marten Toonder Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies