'Sagen en Legenden' - 'Lenneke Mare' (P@per #9, 2009).
Christian Vandendriessche, who signs with Castor, studied art at the Academy in Leuven and at the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels. Shortly after his graduation, he was hired by Willy Vandersteen to work at his studio, producing stories of the western series 'Bessy'. Vandendriessche left Studio Vandersteen after a few years to work on his own creations. He made a Celtic-themed comic story for Hexa, a magazine specialized in legends, signed with Chris. In 2000, he started signing with the pseudonym 'Castor'.
Comic art by Castor.
Castor received assignments from several other publishers and provided backgrounds for an animated film. He returned to comics when the began a collaboration with Randkrant, in which he tells a legend or folktale situated in the area of Brussels. Comic adaptations of folktales and sagas from the area around Brussels became his trademark. A book collection called 'In De Rand' was published in 2010. He was also involved in the launch of the Flavirama theme park, and he has published in P@per, the magazine of the Brabant Strip society. In 2009, he worked with graphic artist Lode Claes on a comic about the history of Tienen (Tirlemont).
'Van Een Boerenmeid Die Slimmer Dan De Duivel Was'.