Dick Vlottes

Dick Vlottes started his career at the publishing house ATH, the publisher of the so-called "beeldromans", in the early 1950s. There, he drew for 41 issues of the Dutch 'Tarzan' comic, as well as the series 'De Groene Straal'. At the same time, he worked freelance for the Toonder Studios. He cooperated on the series 'Tom Poes' and 'Kappie', but also did his own series, 'Minter en Hinter'. Vlottes wrote most of the stories of this series himself.

Dick Vlottes left the Toonder Studios, and joined former colleague Ton de Zwaan's Swan Features Syndicate. Through this syndicate, he drew comics for the Shell magazine Olidin. His best known creation for this magazine was the young Egyptian 'Senmoet', whose stories were also reprinted in newspapers. Other features for the magazine were 'Wetenswaardigheden over de Ruimtevaart' and 'Botje Boons Avnturen' (with scripts by Harry van den Eerenbeemt).

Vlottes joined the Dutch girls' magazine Tina in 1973. He drew such series as 'Ineke van Rijswijk' and 'Leonie, het Horoscoopmeisje'. In 1975 he was employed by the television magazine Televizier, where he produced the comics 'De Krakers' and 'De Fabeltjeskrant'. In addition, he has done cover illustrations for Pep and short stories for De Flintstones and Donald Duck (a.o. inking Frits Godhelp's 'Hiawatha' stories). In the 1980s he was mainly involved in advertising work, as well as instructional sports comics. He was also drawing for De Telegraaf, the paper for which he created his current affair sports cartoon strip 'De Krek' in 1987.