Mark Retera (born 16 May 1964,

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

, best known for his absurd gag comic ''

DirkJan DirkJan is a Dutch comic strip series, created in 1989 by Dutch author and artist Mark Retera. It is also the name of its main character. The series is a gag-a-day comic. Description DirkJan is an underachiever who stumbles through life in mostly ...

''. He is the winner of the 2004

Stripschapprijs The Stripschapprijs is a Dutch prize awarded to comic creators for their entire body of work. It is awarded annually by the ''Stripschap'', the Dutch Society of comics fans, since 1974. The prize is non-pecuniary, but is considered the most import ...

. He also draws caricatures for the Dutch weekly ''Panorama''. Retera studied cognitive science at the current

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century D ...

before turning full-time artist.

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1964 births Living people Dutch cartoonists Dutch caricaturists Dutch comics artists Dutch surrealist artists Radboud University Nijmegen alumni People from Eindhoven Winners of the Stripschapsprijs {{cartoonist-stub