George van Raemdonck

• Born 1888-08-28 · Died 1966-01-28

George van Raemdonck was a Belgian comics artist and painter, and is generally considered to be the first Flemish comics author. He mainly worked for left-wing, socialist and anti-fascist magazines and newspapers, creating thousands of political cartoons. Van Raemdonck was born in Flanders, Belgium, but at the outbreak of the Great War (World War One), he fled to The Netherlands, where he lived till 1928 and worked for decades, and reached the peak in his career. With writer [A. M. de Jong](app://creator/14985) he created the comic strip Bulletje en Boonestaak, which was published between 2 May 1922 and 17 November 1937 in *Het Volk*, the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, and in *Voorwaarts*. After the war, van Raemdonck started a long-term collaboration with writer L. Roelandt, creating together the comic strips Tijl Uilenspiegel, appearing from 1964 on in *Vooruit, Smidje Smee* and *Robinson Crusoë*.