Jan Kruis
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Jan Kruis is a Dutch comics artist. He was born in Rotterdam on June 8th, 1933.
Kruis began creating comics as a child and later became part of Dutch comics pioneer Marten Toonder. He started his comics career drawing "Prins Freddie" for the magazine "De Havenloods", but became famous thanks to his series of one-pagers, called "Jan, Jans en de kinderen" (John, Jeannette and the children). It first appeared in the woman's magazine "Libelle" on december 12 1970. In German-speaking Switzerland, it appeared in the magazine "Spick" which targeted children and teenagers; and in Germany "Favorit" published it for some time under the name "Ulli, Ulla und die Kinder". Jan retired in 1998.
Jan Kruis is the father of comics artist Andrea Kruis. He received the Order of the Dutch Lion in 1996.
