Hans G. Kresse
Hans G. Kresse was a Dutch cartoonist. He was the winner of the 1976 Stripschapprijs.
Biography
Hans G. Kresse, born in the Netherlands in 1921, started his career as a comics artist in 1938 for the scouting magazine De Verkenner. He joined the Toonder Studios in 1944, where he worked on a variety of comics, starting with the typical Toonder-style animal comic Robby, but soon changing to the first of Kresse's realistic works like De Gouden Dolk. It was in this historical realistic style that he would continue to work for the remainder of his career. In the 1950s, he was also active as an illustrator for Donald Duck written by Dick Dreux.The same year, he created his magnum opus, the Viking series Eric de Noorman. As was typical for Dutch comics at the time, it was a comic with the text below the drawings instead of inside text balloons. The comic first appeared in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, and was later also published in the Netherlands and in Wallonia in French. The series continued until 1964, and a spinoff series Erwin, de Zoon van Erik de Noorman started as a regular ballon comic in 1966.
During and after those years, Kresse created many one shot comics and contributed numerous illustrations to many Dutch youth magazines. The most famous of his comics of these years are Matho Tonga, Vidocq, Mangas Coloradas and Alain d'Arcy.
His second main series, Les Peaux-Rouges, depicting the history of the Native Americans during the Spanish conquests of North America, debuted in 1973. Published at the famous French language editor Casterman, Kresse worked on it until 1982, when he had to retire due to failing eyesight.
Cartoons
Tarzan van de apen, in book format 1983Tom Texan, in book format 1983Siegfried, in book format 1990Robby, in book format 1986Per atoomraket naar Mars, in book format 1945, 1948, 1986De gouden dolk, in book format 1946, 1948, 1976Eric de Noorman, in book format since 1948De grote otter, in book format 1946, 1953, 1994Xander, in book format 1974, 1990Detective Kommer, in book format 1949, 1950Matho Tonga, in book format 1977De zoon van het oerwoud, in book format 1994Het Schatteneiland, in book format 1994Roland de Jonge Jager Pim en de Venusman Zorro, in book format 1974, 2005De boogschutter Spin en Marty Bonanza, in book format 2007Vidocq, in book format 1970, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1995Erwin, de zoon van Eric de Noorman, in book format 1970, 1973 Minimic Mangas Coloradas, in book format 1973, 1993Wetamo, in book format 1973, 1992- Indian series :Alain d'Arcy, in book format 1979, 1980, 1980/1981