Frank Smulders

Frank Smulders is an illustrator and children's book writer from Utrecht. He attended the Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam and graduated in Graphic Design and Illustration from the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht. He started working as an illustrator for children's magazines in 1980.

He has done cartoons for Taptoe, and comic strips for Okki. Smulders has illustrated books by Paul van Loon. He wrote and drew his first book in 1989, 'De M van Maan en Muts en...'. He mainly writes fairytales, but also poems, that are illustrated by Hugo van Look and Leo Timmers.