The stories can be described as an absurd fantasy strip, originally intended for children, but gradually drawing in a more adult audience as well, due to references to then actual political events.

After the Netherlands were freed from German occupation in 1945 Godfried Bomans became chief of the cultural department of De Volkskrant.

[2] They help a young boy, Kareltje Flens,[2] who lives a rich and spoiled life, to get away from his luxury life and have some exotic adventures in the Zuiderzee, Urk, Schokland, Africa, the North Pole, the Sahara Desert, the United States of America and the Moon (later stories also bring them to Tibet, China and Japan).

In some episodes Pinkelman also meets famous politicians of the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as Winston Churchill, Mohammad Mosaddegh, the Shah of Persia, Carl Romme, Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Vyacheslav Molotov.

It had 20 episodes and was a rudimentary animated series based on Voges' original drawings, while Kitty Janssen and Wim de Haas provided voices.