Toon van Driel (born 16 February 1945,

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) is a Dutch

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...

, comics writer and comics artist, best known for his comics series ''F.C. Knudde'', about an incompetent

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team, and ''De Stamgasten'', which features anthropomorphic animals telling corny jokes in a bar. He is the winner of the 1988

Stripschapprijs The Stripschapprijs is a Dutch prize awarded to List of comic creators, 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 con ...

. Van Driel was also the original writer of

Eric Schreurs Eric Schreurs (15 September 1958, Leiden – 29 May 2020, Leiden) was a Dutch comics artist. He was the winner of the 2002 Stripschapprijs. He is most famous for his long-running humor comics series ''Joop Klepzeiker'', in magazine Nieuwe Revu, w ...

' comic strip ''Joop Klepzeiker''.

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1945 births Living people Dutch comic strip cartoonists Dutch comics artists Dutch comics writers Dutch humorists Dutch sports comics artists Artists from Amsterdam Winners of the Stripschapsprijs {{cartoonist-stub