'Het Lot(h) van Jonas', De Waarheid, 4 June 1985.
Kerst Brouwer was a Dutch comic artist who drew stories for amateur comic magazines and the Communist newspaper De Waarheid during the first half of the 1980s.
Early years and career
Kerst Brouwer was born in 1953 in Enschede, where for five years he took evening courses in drawing and painting at the Academy of Arts and Industry. It wasn't until 1979, when he read an announcement in comic magazine Stripschrift for new talent for a comic festival in Dronten, that he began making comics. Between 1982 and 1984, he published his work on a regular basis in Marc de Boer's amateur comic magazine Baal, while working as a warehouse worker during daytime.
De Waarheid
From 31 May through 29 June 1985, Brouwer's humorous sci-fi comic strip 'Het Lot(h) van Jonas' ran in the Communist newspaper De Waarheid. Brouwer was part of a new generation of artists which filled the paper's comics section in 1985, and he appeared alongside 'Loenies' and 'Tater de Kater' by Ernst van Veenendaal, and 'Los Cocos' by an artist known only as René. Earlier that year, the paper had published strips by Herwin Walravens, Marc de Boer, Gerrit Geitenoog, Remco de Korte and Tosti, mostly (former) contributors to the amateur comic magazines Rats, TNT and Baal. Brouwer's feature was remarkable because it was the only serial among gag strips. The paper's comic section seems to have been a tryout for amateur cartoonists, and most them quickly disappeared from the comics radar. Brouwer's further whereabouts are unknown.
Kerst Brouwer in 1985 (De Waarheid, 31 May 1985).