Henk Kuijpers comic book catalogue

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From student to cartoonist; Henk Kuijpers is the creator of comic book heroine Franka, one of the most successful and long-running comic book series in the Netherlands and Belgium. A short biography about this drawing master of the clear line: More

Since the 1970s, Henk Kuijpers has turned his hobby, cartoon drawing, into his job.
In 1974, Kuijpers' comic strip Het Crimemuseum appeared in episodes in the comic weekly magazine Pep .

Franka, archaeologist, is one of the characters in the comic. The Crime Museum stands out for its attention to detail. Both characters and settings have been worked out down to the last detail. The sets are sometimes taken from real locations. Already in the second comic strip, Het Meesterwerk , it is clear that Franka has become the main character. Over the course of the adventures she will grow from a caricatured cartoon character to a much more realistic character. When Pep merged with Sjors in 1975 and was henceforth called Eppo , Franka's adventures appeared in the latter magazine. In 1978, Franka's first albums were released by Oberon, Het Crimemuseum and Het Meesterwerk .

Franka quickly became very popular in the Netherlands and Belgium, and from 1987 Franka also appeared in France.

In 1990 Kuijpers received the Stripschap Prize for his entire oeuvre.
On January 11, 2010, Kuijpers was honored as the Greatest Comic Book Hero of the Netherlands by (fellow comic artist) Jan Kruis.

The red-haired, imaginative beauty Franka has developed over the years from a young adventure girl into an adventurous and desirable woman and has nestled in many hearts...
Franka, wow, what a woman...!

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