Joop Klepzeiker cartoonist Eric Schreurs (61) passed away | Entertainment

entertainment">With the widely read strips of Klepzeiker, published in, among others New Revu, he caused a furore in the 1980s. Received in 2002 Schreurs the prestigious Striprijsprijs for his entire oeuvre, according to Van Driel in the opinion of the recipient “much too late”.

entertainment">Van Driel calls Schreurs “a great draftsman who sold insane quantities of the Klepzeiker series. He even became a millionaire because of it and has reached great heights. He was also proud of it, although he regretted that his other work, such as Dick van Bil, received much less attention. ” Schreurs made nineteen parts in the Klepzeiker series.

entertainment">Kousemaker, who has included Schreurs in the Comiclopedia of major cartoonists, states that of the Klepzeiker books, more than one million have been sold. The strip is characterized by a lot of filth, he says, “as in the heyday of the filth of Amsterdam and the Red Light District in the 80s. He made disgust fun, as I call it. True and false dog turds were everywhere on the sidewalk, he drew fat women of pleasure with enlarged lips and breasts, all very over the top. ” Kousemaker calls him drawing master a master. “It was hardly effort.”

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