Wim Meuldijk

Wim Meuldijk (8 June 1922 – 27 December 2007) was a Dutch writer, illustrator, and screenwriter. He is the creator of Ketelbinkie, one of the most popular Dutch comics after World War II, and of Pipo de Clown, the star of a television show that ran from 1958 to 1980 which Meuldijk produced, filmed, and for which he wrote the script.

Biography

Meuldijk's career as an illustrator really started during World War II. While in hiding to avoid being drafted, he developed a comic (Snowflake and the Eskimo), and after the war started publishing a comic magazine, Snowflake, which turned into Ketelbinkie Krant, a magazine containing what was to be his breakthrough: Ketelbinkie, a three-panel comic about a little street kid with miraculous strength. The comic first appeared in 1945 and ran in the daily newspapers for twelve years. After that, Meuldijk wrote for radio shows

Meuldijk also wrote screenplays for other television shows, including Mik & Mak and Koning Bolo, and scenes for the Dutch Sesame Street, but remained pigeonholed the rest of his life as the creator of Pipo.

He is praised for his imaginative use of language