Dick Briel (28 December 1950 – 25 September 2011) was a Dutch comic artist from in Leiden, living in Amsterdam, who followed the Ligne claire style.
The third adventure, London Labyrinth, appeared in the Veronica weekly TV magazine and was also published as an album.
The Professor Palmboom stories are science fiction, dealing with things like killer plants.
International editions of the Palmboom adventures include French-language versions, published by the then Grenoble-based Glénat.
After several years of absence, Briel reappeared in Veronica magazine as the co-writer with Ruud den Drijver of the humorous horror comic Max en Mummie, drawn first by Steven Dupré (1995) and then by Wout Paulussen (1995–96).