Wibo

Wim Boost, who signed with Wibo, was the longtime daily cartoonist of De Volkskrant. He was a drawing teacher before he got a job as an animator at the Toonder studios in World War II.

After the War, he drew for Jeugdkampioen (ANWB) and the military magazine Het Lichtspoor. He worked for the magazine Mandril, Maandblad voor Mensen, from 1948, where he worked alongside Fiep Westendorp, Wim Bijmoer and his brother Charles Boost.

He was the staff cartoonist of De Volkskrant throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Some of his work has been collected in cartoon books. He had a column in the Haagse Post from 1952 to 1955. From 1963 to 1964, Boost worked for Studio, the magazine of the KRO.