Jan Gulbransson

Jan Gulbransson was born in Munich in 1949. He is the grandson of the renowned artist/caricaturist Olaf Gulbransson. He attended the Kunstakademie München in 1969, but left after five semesters to join the T.C. Animation Studio. He worked at this studios until 1980. Meanwhile, from 1977 to 1979, he had his first stint on comics with the children's comic 'Berti's Abenteuer'.

In 1980, he started drawing stories for Oberon (the Dutch Disney publisher at the time). He wrote and drew many of his own stories, as well as illustrating those of other writers, including Jan Kruse, Evert Geradts, and Frank Jonker. In the late 1980s, he also started co-writing) with Robert Klein. Although most of his stories were 10 pages, he wrote and drew two epic 'Uncle Scrooge' stories for album publication. During the 1980s and 1990s, Gulbransson also continued his work in animation. In the 1990s he also took on illustrating books for both children and adults. While still doing an occasional Disney comic, he also started a strip of his own, 'Willi Wurm'.