Martin Lodewijk

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

Martin Lodewijk was born in Rotterdam. 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 ''Het Parool'', 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 ''Storm''. 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 Willy Vandersteen and Karel Biddeloo as writer for ''De Rode Ridder'', with drawings by Claus Scholz.

Lodewijk worked on the third open source movie by the Blender Foundation, ''Sintel'', released in 2010. Provided by Wikipedia