Joop Mommers was born in Rotterdam. During a period of 6 years, he worked for advertising agencies. Through the De La Mar agency, he was assigned to do twelve newspaper advertising strips for General Electric, which appeared in 1973. He eventually went to work as an independent cartoonist and comics artist. He made some gag pages for Pep in 1974, and was a cartoonist for Motor magazine from 1976. With his brother-in-law Jan Schrijver, he made the comic 'Kanis W. Lupus', which appeared in Taptoe for two years. Afterwards, he returned to advertising art.
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