Carry Brugman

Born in Dordrecht, Carry Brugman attended the Art Academy in Amsterdam. He did his first work for Gondolex publishers. For this publisher, he created the comic 'Gnollem en Gabbernach' for 'Boemerang', a comic album that also featured work by his brother Gideon. The album was already printed, but not released due to the company's bankruptcy in 1967. He briefly worked for Toonder Studios from 1969 to 1970, before he joined the publishing house Oberon. There, he illustrated several covers for Sjors, and he started his first comic series, 'Joris Jofel', with scripts by Ruud Ringers and later Andries Brandt (1971-74).

Also with writer Brandt, and also for Sjors, he created short stories with 'Professor Breinbreier' in 1974 and 1975. When Sjors and Pep merged to Eppo, Brugman took on a more realistic style and started the adventure series 'De Partners' with scripts by Dick Matena (1976-84) and later Jacques Post (1985-93). In the 1990s, he cooperated on the collection 'Jules en Ollie - Stedenstrips' of the publishing house Concept, and he illustrated Disney stories for the Dutch Donald Duck weekly. He took over the comic series 'Sam & Sam' from Rob Phielix, which is published in Samsam, a monthly about children in development countries (scripts by Willem Ritstier).