Jozef Van Hove, better known as Pom, (b.

Berchem Berchem () is a southern Districts of Antwerp, district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Berchem is located along the old ''Grote Steenweg'' (Dutch language, Dutch for 'Big Paved Road') that has connected ...

, 16 November 1919 - 2 May 2014) was a Belgian

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

writer and artist, mainly known for the humorous-satirical adventure

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber ''Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber'' was a Belgian comic series, published between 1951 and 1995, created by Pom (Jozef Van Hove). It is a humoristic adventure strip about two friends, Piet Pienter and Bert Bibber and their female friend Susan. It ...

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Gazet van Antwerpen The ''Gazet van Antwerpen'' (Antwerp Gazette, popularly named ''De Frut'', "sour head cheese") is a Belgian newspaper in Antwerp and Flanders, published by Concentra. History and profile ''Gazet van Antwerpen'' was established in 1891. Its edit ...

''. Pom was one of the best known Flemish comics authors of the 1950s. Between 1955 and 1995, 45 comic books were published of his newspaper comic strip. In 2010, a new album of ''Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber'' was created by

Tom Bouden Tom Bouden (born 1971, Ostend, Belgium) is an openly gay Belgian artist, best known for his comics albums, which often satirize old-fashioned Belgian comics. Biography Tom Bouden was born in Ostend, Belgium in 1971. He started making comics wi ...

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Luc Cromheecke Luc Cromheecke (born 2 August 1961), is a Belgium, Belgian comics artist best known for the comic series ''Tom Carbon'', ''Taco Zip'', ''Roboboy'' and ''Plunk''. Biography Luc Cromheecke was born in Antwerp in 1961.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Luc Cr ...

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Martin Lodewijk Martinus Spyridon Johannes Lodewijk (born 30 April 1939) is a Dutch comics writer and cartoonist, and advertising adviser. Martin Lodewijk was born in Rotterdam. He dropped out of high school in 1957, and started drawing cartoons, notably of spac ...

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Lambiek Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (, – Bussum, ), though since 2007, his son Boris Kousemaker is the current owner. From 1968 to 2015, it was located ...

1919 births Belgian comics writers Belgian comics artists Belgian humorists Belgian satirists 2014 deaths People from Berchem {{Europe-comics-creator-stub