Bimbo en de Cocosvogel, by Lex Metz
'Bimbo de Cocosvogel' (Kabouterboekje, 1943).

Alexander Metz was born in 1913 in Den Helder and received his cultural education at the Art academy (ABK) in The Hague. By the end of the 1930s, he was the one of the main artists of Doe Mee magazine. During World War II, he made some so-called 'Kabouterboekjes' for the Bijenkorf department stores: 'Het Zilveren Luciferdoosje' and 'Bimbo en de Cocosvogel'.

De Zilveren Lucifer, by Lex Metz
'Het Zilveren Luciferdoosje'.

Another comic by Metz is 'Pukkel en de Blauwe Ogen van Jan Beilder'. In Amsterdam, he was a book illustrator and designer for the Co-op 2 agency. In the 1950s, he worked as an illustrator for De Groene Amsterdammer and at the same time he was a professor at the Amsterdam Academy (the later Rietveld Academy). He was the teacher of the famous cartoonist Peter van Straaten.

Het Zilveren Luciferdoosje by Lex Metz
'Het Zilveren Luciferdoosje'.

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