Jan van der Voo

• Born 1938-07-18

Jan van der Voo is a comics creator whose professional career began with a strip about the construction of the Rotterdam subway, ‘De Metroriet’. During the 1960s he worked with Jan Kruis producing advertising strips that were published in “Donald Duck” and other children’s comics. Their clients included Mars, Bounty, Milky Way, De Ruijter, and others. He collaborated with Wim Meuldijk on a comics adaptation of the latter’s television character ‘Pipo de Clown’ (1969–1973) and drew the final years (1974–1979) of Meuldijk’s long-running ‘Ketelbinkie’ feature about a super-powered boy, both in “Donald Duck”. He also published regularly in “Sjors” in the late 1960s and the 1970s. In 1982, he moved to New Zealand, where he stayed until 1997. He was a political cartoonist for the “New Zealand Herald”. After his return to the Netherlands, he illustrated educational books and created the humorous feature ‘Even een Piraatje’ in “MYX Stripmagazine”.