Gerrit de Jager

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Gerrit de Jager" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Gerrit de Jager" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Gerrit de Jager (born 1954, Amsterdam) is a Dutch cartoonist, and the creator of series including De familie Doorzon [nl], Liefde en geluk [nl], Zusje [nl] and Roel en zijn Beestenboel [nl].

Career[edit]

de Jager's career started in the early 1980s with Wim Stevenhagen under the pseudonym Prutspruts ("fiddle-fiddle"), later changed to Prutswerk ("lousy job"). In the early stages he worked with Fay Lovsky. The first comic they released, entitled De Ironische Man ("The Ironic Man") was not very successful, but the duo went on producing comics such as Bert J. Prulleman and Pruts Pruts, Privat Kreye for the alternative magazine De Vrije Balloen. During this time, the Familie Doorzon also appeared for the first time.

In 1984 Lovsky and de Jager broke up, and de Jager continued the familie Doorzon series, a satire of Dutch society and family life which eventually became one of the most popular cartoons in the Netherlands.^{[citation needed]}

De Jager released an autobiographical novel, Door Zonder Familie, in 2011.^[1]

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Nederlandse Stripgeschiedenis (in Dutch)
• Ibid. (in Dutch)
• Comiclopedia (in English)