Jan Wesseling was best known as an illustrator, but he has also created comics during his career. 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'.
Back in Holland, he found employment with an advertising agency, but in 1956, he joined the team of talented Dutch comic artists at the Marten Toonder Studios. There, he worked on 'Koning Hollewijn' and specially the newspaper strip 'Marion', which appeared in De Telegraaf between 1957 and 1961. Scripted by writers like Lo Hartog van Banda and Harry van den Eerenbeemt, Wesseling soon got help on the art duties from Thé Tjong-Khing, who also took over until Wesseling left the strip completely.
Wesseling then took on the series 'Athi' in Pep in 1966, but he only drew the first episode. He was replaced by Gerrit Stapel. In the years that followed Wesseling mainly focused on illustrating. He made cover illustrations for famous children's books, like 'Oorlogswinter' by Jan Terlouw, 'Oorlog zonder Vrienden' by Evert Hartman and the 'Thule' trilogy by Thea Beckman. He furthermore made illustrations for magazines like Donald Duck, Okki, Jippo, Taptoe, Bobo, Tina, Revu and Margriet. In the late 1980s, he completed the comic 'Joker' in Ezelsoor after Piet Wijn's stroke. He completely retired from drawing in the mid 1990s.
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