Marc Daniëls (10 July 1959 – 10 May 2021),
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Marc “De Marck" Daniëls (62) overleden
also known as De Marck, was a Belgian cartoonist and painter. He ran Studio Max together with Rik De Wulf between 1999 and 2010.
Biography
Daniëls studied Visual Arts at the Royal Atheneum Brussels in Jette.
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He drew illustrations and cartoons for Brussels newspapers.
In 1999, he founded Studio Max! alongside De Wulf.
They came up with the comic strip Stam en Pilou for the youth philately of the Belgian Post, which was released in album form in 2000.
In 2010, the 25th album in the series was released. In the same year, the studio was closed.
In 2011, this comic series got a comic strip wall in
Brussels
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on ''Rue des Alexiens/Cellebroersstraat.
In 2009, he made the album Alexander the Great 1 in
Jacques Martin's educational series The Travels of Alex, together with De Wulf, among others. In 2011, Daniëls drew a seven-part comic series on a scenario by Danny Verbiest about the Brussels painter and art dealer Geert Van Bruaene (1891-1964).
Daniëls died at the age of 61 from the effects of
COVID-19
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References
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1959 births
2021 deaths
People from Jette
Artists from Brussels
20th-century Belgian artists
21st-century Belgian artists
Belgian comics writers
Belgian comics artists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium