Artist · Netherlands

1916 to 2006

Known for

“Fingers”

Lo Hartog van Banda.

comics artist · comics writer

Netherlands, 1916 to 2006

In short

Lodewijk Hartog van Banda (4 November 1916, in The Hague, 2 February 2006, in The Hague) was a Dutch comics writer. He lived in the Dutch East Indies during the 1930s and early 1940s; when the Netherlands went to war with German and then Japan, he was arrested for being a Conscientious objector and ended up spending the war in an internment camp in Surinam called Jodensavanne Working for the Toonder Studio, he co-wrote Aram, Kappie, Panda, Tom Puss and his own creation Koning Hollewijn. When Marten Toonder went to Ireland, Lo Hartog van Banda left the studio.

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Biodata

Born
1916, The Hague
Died
2006, The Hague
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Work
comics artist, comics writer, screenwriter, writer
Career

Lo Hartog van Banda, in numbers

Lifetime

Sketchbook

Portrait of Lo Hartog van Banda

Known for

The essential Lo Hartog van Banda

Bibliography

9 works, decade by decade