Bert Bus

• Born 1931-07-19 · Died 2017-08-28

Artist and sometimes writer, began working for De Spaarnestad shortly after World War II and stayed with that publisher (and its successors) until his retirement, after which he occasionally worked for other publishers. In the early 1950s he produced the science fiction feature Olaf Noord and the pre-historic humor strip Skokan, een slimmeling uit het jaar nul. He worked in other genres, as well, from historical-setting adventures through erotic stories to stories about Huckleberry Finn and Nancy Drew. But he is probably best known for creating new stories for Robot Archie, when the British-created series was cancelled in the United Kingdom.