Jan Dirk Barreveld

Jan Dirk Barreveld has been cartooning from a very young age. During his economics studies, he drew for various faculty-related publications. He also contributed illustrations and cartoons for three Dutch student magazines and was a regular contributor to the amateur magazine De Stripper. While working as an illustrator for several magazines and companies as a member of Studio Noodweer, he was the author of the 'Eugène' panel that appeared weekly in the daily Metro from 1999. The strip was later also published in Veronica Magazine and Myx. The first 'Eugène' album was published in 2002. Barreveld also made cartoons with the character 'Richie Balls', as well as the comic 'Stef en de Stad' for Z@pp & Zo.