Gerrit de Bremme, who uses the pseudonym Shellac, or "Sh3Ll4C", has made a weekly cartoon with the Martian 'Freddy' on his own website since 2002. A year later, the character replaced Bastiaan Geleijnse, John Reid and Jean-Marc van Tol's 'Fokke en Sukke' in the Leuven student magazine Veto. De Bremme has self-published several volumes of 'Freddy' collections since 2004. In 2006, the character also appeared in Dutch comic magazine Myx.