Frans van Immerseel

Frans van Immerseel was a famous painter, caricaturist and illustrator from Flanders. His cartoons and caricatures appeared in a variety of magazines, such as De Waarheid, Het Gazet van Antwerpen, De Schelde, De Standaard, De Morgenpost, Haardvriend, as well as the publications of De Goede Pers in Averbode, of which he was chief graphics in the 1930s. He founded his own press agency Het Rad in 1938. He started his stop-comic 'De Lotgevallen van Janssens' in January 1937in Ons Kinderland. Until the War, this strip appeared in a variety of Flemish and Dutch magazines. It also appeared in France and Germany. In 1951, he created the text comic 'Sjengske' in Het Gazet van Limburg and De Stem. In addition, he briefly drew 'Teun Koekeloere' in De Antwerpse Post in 1964.