Noortje
Noortje (full name "Noortje Visser") is a Dutch gag-a-day humor comic strip created in 1975 for the Dutch girls' magazine "Tina". The script is by Patty Klein and the drawings are by Jan Steeman. It is currently one of the longest-running Dutch comics series and with 41 years the longest-running Dutch comics series made by the same writer/artist team. In 2016 Steeman resigned and was succeeded by his son Lucas Steeman; he died on January 24, 2018 of kidney-failure. Patty Klein died on 15 March 2019. Concept. Noortje stars a young, red-haired  teenage girl with freckles. Each episode is a self-contained story in which she usually makes a huge blunder or ends up in an embarrassing situation. Albums. The first nine albums were published by De Geïllustreerde Pers, the following five by VNU Tijdschriften. Since 2002 all albums are published by Sanoma.