Phiny Dick
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Afine Kornélie Dik, better known as Phiny Dick was a Dutch illustrator and writer of children's books and comics. She was the wife of Marten Toonder from 1935 until her death.
Exhibition room in the basement of Museum Meermanno (Special exhibition May to September 2012)
Tom Puss
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Tom Puss is a Dutch comic strip, created by Marten Toonder. Together with Hans G. Kresse's Eric de Noorman and Pieter Kuhn's Kapitein Rob, it is regarded as the Big Three of Dutch comics.
Phiny Dick
…World War II, Dick and Toonder started working for De Telegraaf and moved to Amsterdam. For that newspaper, Toonder and Dick created a new comic strip, Tom Puss, about a small white cat. Dick invented the name and wrote the first two stories. The series became one of the classic Dutch comics. In 1944 their…
Oliver B. Bumble (left) and Tom Puss (right)
Marten Toonder with Oliver B. Bumble
Olivier B. Bommel statue