Martinus Spyridon Johannes Lodewijk (born 30 April 1939) is a Dutch comics writer and cartoonist, and advertising illustrator. Martin Lodewijk was born in

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. He dropped out of high school in 1957, and started drawing cartoons, notably of spacecraft and pirates. In 1959, his first cartoon was published in the newspaper ''

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'', after which he specialized in drawing for commercial advertising. For the weekly comics magazine '' Pep'', he co-created with Jan Kruis the '' Agent 327'' comic in 1966, a feature he ended up writing and drawing for close to fifty years. He provided scripts for other strips, such as Don Lawrence's ''

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''. After ''Pep'' and '' Sjors'' merged into '' Eppo'', Lodewijk became ''Eppo'''s chief editor. In 1999, Lodewijk published the world's smallest comic book; ''Minimum Bug'' (26 mm by 37 mm). It belongs to the ''Agent 327'' series. From 2004 onward, Lodewijk succeeded

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and Karel Biddeloo as writer for '' De Rode Ridder'', with drawings by Claus Scholz. Lodewijk worked on the third

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, '' Sintel'', released in 2010.

Personal life

In 1973, Martin Lodewijk and his brother Tim participated in the knowledge quiz show '' Twee voor Twaalf''. The brothers won, and returned for the special jubilee quiz in 2005, where they reached the finals.

Awards

For his whole work in comics, Lodewijk was presented the Stripschapprijs in 1978, the highest award in the Dutch comics world. On 29 April 2011 Martin Lodewijk was invested as a Knight of the

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. He received this royal medal because of his comic work.

Comics

* '' Agent 327'' — all volumes (artist and writer) * ''

'' — (writer) * '' January Jones'' * '' Johnny Goodbye'' * '' Bernard Voorzichtig'' * '' De Rode Ridder'' (writer) * ''

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'', Volume: La Corde du pendu 1982 (Eng: "The Rope of the Hanged") (writer)

References

External links

Martin Lodewijk at Comiclopedia
Dutch comics artists Dutch comics writers Dutch humorists Dutch satirists Dutch satirical comics writers Dutch satirical comics artists Dutch advertising artists and illustrators Minicomics 1939 births Living people Artists from Rotterdam Winners of the Stripschapsprijs Dutch science fiction writers {{comics-creator-stub