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Hans G. Kresse, born in the Netherlands in 1921, started his career as a comics artist in 1938 in the scouting magazine De Verkenner. He joined the Toonder Studios in 1944, where he worked on a variety of comics, starting with the typical Toonder-style animal comic Robby, but soon changing to the first of Kresse's realistic works like De Gouden Dolk (1946). It was in this historical realistic style that he would continue to work for the remainder of his career.
The same year, he created his magnum opus, the Viking series Eric de Noorman. As was typical for Dutch comics at the time, it was a comic with the text below the drawings instead of inside text balloons. The comic first appeared in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, and was later also published in the Netherlands and in Wallonia in French. The series continued until 1964, and a spinoff series Erwin, de Zoon van Erik de Noorman started as a regular ballon comic in 1966.
During and after those years, Kresse created many one shot comics and contributed numerous illustrations to many Dutch youth magazines. The most famous of his comics of these years are Matho Tonga, Vidocq, Mangas Coloradas and Alain d'Arcy.
His second main series, Les Peaux-Rouges, depicting the history of the Native Americans during the Spanish conquests of North America, debuted in 1973. Published at the famous French language editor Casterman, Kresse worked on it until 1982, when he had to retire due to failing eyesight.
Cartoons
Tarzan van de apen (Tarzan of the apes, 1938-1940), in book format 1983
Tom Texan (1940-1941), in book format 1983
Siegfried (1943-1944), in book format 1990
Robby (1945-1946), in book format 1986
Per atoomraket naar Mars (By nuclear rocket to Mars, 1945), in book format 1945, 1948, 1986
De gouden dolk (The gold dagger, 1946), in book format 1946, 1948, 1976
Eric de Noorman (Eric the Norman, 1946-1964), in book format since 1948
De grote otter (The giant otter, 1946), in book format 1946, 1953, 1994
Xander (1947-1948), in book format 1974, 1990
Detective Kommer (1947-1948), in book format 1949, 1950
Matho Tonga (1948-1954), in book format 1977
De zoon van het oerwoud (Son of the Jungle, 1954), in book format 1994
Het Schatteneiland (Treasure Island, 1954), in book format 1994
Roland de Jonge Jager (Roland the Young Hunter, 1957)
Pim en de Venusman (Pim and the man from Venus, 1959-1960)