Wim Boost

Willem " Wim " Louis Joseph Boost ( born July 2, 1918 in Breda, † August 1, 2005 in Breukelen, known as Wibo ) was a Dutch artist who was particularly known for his decades of work for the daily newspaper de Volkskrant.

Life

Boost began as an art teacher and then worked for the Toonder studios of the artist Marten Toonder. Subsequently, he worked for the magazine mandril - Maandblad voor cafeterias, a kind of Dutch New York, the only published from 1948-1953, the Jeugdkampioen the ANWB and Het Poor light, the official weekly publication of the Dutch armed forces operate. From 1951 to boost employee was the newspaper de Volkskrant and created the daily cartoon for the front, which finally made ​​it one of the most prominent artist of the Netherlands. After exactly 8,888 cartoons he took in June 1983 Farewell to the newspaper. He also worked occasionally for the Haagse Post and the KRO Studio, the program leader of the Katholieke Radio Omroep ( Catholic radio, short CRO).

Boosts older brother Charles (1907-1990) was also a renowned artist.

Works

  • Het konijntje, dat zijn neus in een wespennest stuck. Speijer, Richter & Co, Amsterdam 1945
  • Stientje het dromerige kalfje, Breughel, Amsterdam 1946
  • Het avontuur van Kala en Kobolt, Stenvert M & Zoon Uitgevers, Meppel 1950
  • In de hoek gedrukt. 20 Jaar Wibo in de Volkskrant. , Meulenhoff, Baarn 1971
  • Niks doen because geen 's factory, Utrecht 1975
  • NScartooNS, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Utrecht 1981

Honors

  • Knight of the Order of Oranje -Nassau
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