Martin Lodewijk (Rotterdam, 1939) has been a cartoonist for sixty-five years. He grew up in post-war Rotterdam with Dutch magazines such as Spirou, Heroic en Tom Poes Weekly. But also with American comics, which were easy to find in second-hand bookshops in the port city of Rotterdam. Lodewijk tried to make comics himself at an early age and with success: already at the age of 17 he published cartoons and comics at the Rotterdam company ATH for magazines (Bolero, Mascot) and booklets (Aerospace, Arent Brandt). His contribution to the comics world includes the widely known science fiction series Storm and scenarios for all kinds of series in the detective, adventurer, western, fantasy and knight genre. He is best known as the author of the comic series Agent 327, a high-quality strip, in which he also manages to capture his deep love for his hometown of Rotterdam.
