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'Uncle Jodocus gets a blow cigar'. Marten Toonder Studios (Lensen, Wim). Wim G. Lensen (born October 8, 1914, died December 7, 1993) was the very first employee that Marten Toonder hired in 1941. He initially worked at the Pätz advertising agency on the Rokin in Amsterdam, and was hired as an assistant to Marten Toonder in 1940. He contributed to the comic productions of Diana Editions, and not much later became the inker of the backgrounds of the 'Tom Poes' day strip. In the second half of the 1940s he provided the pencil drawings for some stories of the new comic strip 'Panda'. Lensen also illustrated the well-known postcard series 'Doremias Dias'. Another contribution from Lensen to the Toonder productions is the coloring of the weekly 'Tom Poes' strip for Revue. Between 1964 and 1974 he also colored Piet Wijn's 'Puk en Poppedijn' strip for De Spiegel. Unfortunately, in 1971, most of Lensen's original work was lost in a fire at Nederhorst ten Berg castle, where the studio was located. Lensen, one of the few cartoonists permanently employed at Toonder Studios, never mentally recovered from this blow. He even spent some time in a psychiatric institution due to hallucinations. He did not return to the studio, and died in 1993.
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