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Jan van Haasteren is a Dutch comic artist and illustrator, whose work is characterized by its high density of visual jokes and absurdities. Before becoming highly successful with his large and hilariously crowded jigsaw puzzle drawings for jigsaw puzzle company Jumbo, he had a fruitful career in the Dutch comic industry. Starting in the s, he drew for several productions of the Toonder Studio's, including work on Marten Toonder 's 'Kappie' strip and licensed stories with Disney and Hanna-Barbera comics characters.

With writer Andries Brandt , Van Haasteren was the original artist of the studio's semi-realistic newspaper comic 'Aafje Anders' , later continued by other artists.

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In , Van Haasteren was one of the co-founders of the Dutch underground comix magazine De Vrije Balloen, where artists could do their own thing and experiment. He also created the magazine's mascot, Tobias Quintenpreut. During the s and s, Van Haasteren gradually shifted from comics to commercial art. Early life and career Jan van Haasteren was born in in Schiedam, a harbor town in the province of South Holland.

A young boy during World War II, Van Haasteren lived through bombings and the Hunger Winter, but was too young to be fully aware of the severity of the situation. Shortly after the war, he was put on a Red Cross transport of malnourished children to England, where he spent a couple of months with a foster family. It wasn't until two or three years after the liberation before the Van Haasteren family was fully reunited in the Netherlands.