Carol Willem Voges (

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

, 19 June 1925 –

Laren, North Holland Laren () is a town and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the Gooi region, it is the oldest town in the area. Together with its neighbor Blaricum, Laren is one of the most affluent towns in the Netherlands. N ...

9 January 2001) was a Dutch

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

and cartoonist.

Biography

Voges started his career working for comics artist

Joop Geesink Joop is a Dutch masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Johannes, Joseph, Jacobus, or other names. It may refer to: * Jogchum T. Joop Alberda (born 1952), Dutch volleyball coach, coach of the 1996 Olympic champion Dutch team * Jo ...

. He worked at the Toonder Studios, where he drew the ''

Tom Poes ''Tom Puss'' (''Tom Poes'' in Dutch) is a Dutch comic strip, created by Marten Toonder. Together with Hans G. Kresse's '' Eric de Noorman'' and Pieter Kuhn's ''Kapitein Rob'' it is regarded as the Big Three of Dutch comics. ''Tom Poes'' was a ta ...

'' comics, and also made illustrations and comics for magazines such as ''

Sjors Sjors is a Dutch people, Dutch version of the given name George (given name), George. Persons bearing the name include * Sjors van Driem (born George van Driem, 1957), Dutch linguist at Leiden University * Sjors Scheres (born 1975), Dutch scientis ...

'', ''

Donald Duck Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known fo ...

'', ''Sesame Street'', ''Bobo'', ''Okki'', ''Taptoe'' and others. Voges was mostly active at publishing company ''De Eekhoorn'', where he illustrated many children's novels, including Henri Arnoldus' '' Pietje Puk'', ''Tup en Joep'', ''Klik en Klak'', ''Pim en Pidoe'', ''Jokkie'' and ''Oki en Doki''. He also illustrated Ans Arnoldus' ''Tillie en Tiffie'' series, Trix Bakker's ''Peter en Peet'' series, Willy van der Heide's ''Bob Evers'' series and Bouke Jagt's ''Edda en Wimmie'' series. Among his best known work was the comic strip '' De Avonturen van Pa Pinkelman'', which was published in ''

De Volkskrant ''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized c ...

'' between November 11, 1945 and 1952 under script of

Godfried Bomans Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans (2 March 1913 – 22 December 1971) was a Dutch author and television personality. Much of his work remains untranslated into English. Life and career Godfried Bomans was born in The Hague and grew up in and aroun ...

. He also co-operated on the 1976–1977 TV adaptation of this story. Other comics from his hand are ''Jimmy Brown, Sportheld nr. 1'' (1949–1957), which also appeared in ''De Volkskrant''. He also illustrated covers for

sheet music Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses List of musical symbols, musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chord (music), chords of a song or instrumental Musical composition, musical piece. Like ...

Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Voges, Carol 1925 births 2001 deaths Dutch illustrators Dutch children's book illustrators Dutch male writers Dutch comics artists Disney comics artists Dutch humorists Artists from Amsterdam