Jan Wesseling original comic art

Jan Wesseling is best known as an illustrator, but he has also created comics during his long career. Born in Oudekerk aan de Amstel, Wesseling studied advertising at the Don Bosco School in Amsterdam. He was sent to work in Germany during World War II, where he kept his artistic ambitions alive by drawing portraits of deceased and missig family members of his factory co-workers. After the War, he was sent to the Duch colony Indonesia during the Politional Actions. There, he was drawing for several soldier's magazines, as well as the Tiger Brigade memorial book 'Tussen Sawahs en Bergen'.