Alfred Mazure

Alfred Leonardus Mazure ( born September 8, 1914 in Nijmegen, † February 16, 1974 in London) was a Dutch writer and cartoonist.

Life and work

His first comic published Mazure, who had received no drawings or artistic training in 1932 in the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Courant Utrecht and De Prins. In the following years, he traveled to the Balkans and Africa and was only after his return to the Netherlands in 1938, the collaboration with De Prins again. The subscribed by him under the pseudonym Maz series Dick Bos, which appeared in De Prins first in 1940, was a great commercial success, the basis for several animated and feature films and has been translated into various languages. After Mazure the invitation of the German occupying forces that Dick Bos should confess to fascism, was not complied with, the series was discontinued and could be continued until after the Second World War.

In 1946 moved to England Mazure, where he worked for various newspapers and magazines. For the UK market Mazure recorded several rows and strips, for example, from 1954 to the Daily Mirror published in the daily strip Romeo Brown, which he gave to Jim Holdaway in 1957. Jane, daughter of Jane appeared 1961-1963 also in the Daily Mirror. In addition to his drawing Tätighkeit Mazure authored over 20 novels and several satirical books.