Joseph Ferdinand Doeve (2 July 1907 – 11 June 1981), better known as Eppo Doeve, was a popular

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and cartoonist of

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descent. He was born in

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and moved to the Netherlands in 1927. He was invested as a Knight of the

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in 1973. His cartoons were mostly published in Elsevier Weekblad and later in '' Elsevier Magazine''. He also drew two newspaper comics, ''Mannetje Bagatel'' (1946) and ''Kleine Isar, de Vierde Koning'' (1962), both with text by novelist

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. Doeve was additionally active in advertising illustration.

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1907 births 1981 deaths Dutch comic strip cartoonists Dutch comics artists 20th-century Dutch illustrators Dutch magazine illustrators People from Bandung Wageningen University and Research alumni Indo people 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch people of Indo descent 20th-century Dutch male artists Dutch advertising artists and illustrators {{cartoonist-stub