Mars Gremmen

Mars Gremmen was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1969. He started his comics career publishing 'Meneer Foutjes' in Sjors & Sjimmie Stripblad together with Kees de Boer from 1994 to 1997. During this period, he also wrote a couple of scripts for the 'Sjors en Sjimmie' comic. This was followed by 'Trix', a comic published in Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad as well as Sjosji from 1995 to 1999.

He also collaborated with Peter de Wit on a couple of pages of 'De Familie Fortuin' and made 'Popi de Clown' for Striparazzi. For magazine Hello You! Gremmen made 'Captain Tom And His Mom', which was followed by 'The Girl is Mine', a comic that has been published in albums by Silvester in 2004. Older episodes of the strip are published under the title 'Cette Fille est A Moi!' in the Belgian monthly Farfelu.

For the Dutch astma foundation, he created the comic strip 'Max & Manfred' and for computer magazine Macfan, he produced 'Mac & Maggie'. Other creations by Gremmen are 'De Red@ctie' for Veronica Magazine and 'De Ontdekkers' for National Geographic Junior.

He writes the scripts of 'Galaktika' in Flo' monthly (art by Maarten vande Wiele). Besides comics, Mars Gremmen has also written scenarios, done advertising work and drawn storyboards for a number of films, including Dick Maas' 'Down' and Esmé Lammers' 'Tom & Thomas'. He also did caricatures for the animation series 'Café de Wereld' and for Veronica Magazine.