birth_place subcat awards nationality art name cartoonist birth_date write article_title birth_name edit
rotterdam , netherlands dutch stripschapprijs , 2011 , 1978 knight in the order of orange-nassau dutch y martin lodewijk y 30 april 1939 y martin lodewijk
 martinus spyridon johannes lodewijk y
martin lodewijk

martinus spyridon johannes lodewijk -lrb- born 30 april 1939 -rrb- is a dutch comics writer and cartoonist , and advertising adviser .
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 '' -lrb- 26 mm by 37 mm -rrb- .
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 .
