John Reid (born 1968) is a Dutch

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and

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. Reid was born in 1968 in

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. Reid makes the cartoon '' Fokke & Sukke'' with

Bastiaan Geleijnse Bastiaan Geleijnse (born 8 March 1967, Utrecht) is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is the winner of the 2004 Stripschapprijs for '' Fokke & Sukke'', with John Reid and Jean-Marc van Tol. Prior to writing comics, he was a Communications ...

and

Jean-Marc van Tol Jean-Marc van Tol (born 6 July 1967, Rotterdam) is a cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2004 Stripschapprijs for '' Fokke & Sukke'', with John Reid and Bastiaan Geleijnse Bastiaan Geleijnse (born 8 March 1967, Utrecht) is a Dutch cartoonist an ...

. Originally, the cartoon was published in the satirical student newspaper ''

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''. Since 1999, it is published in the national newspaper ''

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''.Bart Mos,
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'', 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015. Reid, Geleijnse, and Van Tol won the

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in 2003. He studied law. He has been a judge at the court of justice in

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since 2002. As of 2016 he is also the new host of the TV show ' in which civil disputes are settled.

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