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Beautiful original gouache for Pinkeltje by the well-known illustrator Gerard Verstraaten. Gerard van Straaten (The Hague, April 17, 1924 - Empe, April 6, 2011) was a Dutch illustrator and comic book artist. He illustrated the famous Kameleon series by H. de Roos and many other books published by Kluitman Publishers. He was also an illustrator of short stories in various weekly magazines and a cartoonist under the pseudonym Sidoan. Gerard van Straaten was born as the son of the architect G.L. van Straaten. One of his younger brothers, Peter, would later become known as a cartoonist and cartoonist (“Father and Son”). He worked for a long time at the Toonder Studios. There he drew several comics. His first comic “Rex Rijvers” was published in 1948 in the Vrije Volk. He also drew the comic “Pedro de Cania” and “Marco Polo” for the Tom Poes Weekblad. Until 1967, under the pseudonym Sidoan, Van Straaten would make comics and illustrate stories for magazines such as “Pep”. In 1953 he made the illustrations and cover for the book “Patava de cave boy” by C. Wilkeshuis. It was the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the publisher Kluitman. Series such as "De Kameleon", but also "Commissaris Achterberg", and "De Discus" were provided with colorful covers and pen drawings by Gerard van Straaten. Van Straaten remained active for Kluitman until the early 1990s. He is still seen by fans of the Kameleon books as the illustrator of this famous series.
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