Frans Piët

At the time Martin Branner's Perry Winkle was very popular under its Dutch translation of Sjors and even inspired his own eponymous magazine.

[3] When the original American comic strip gradually started to put more focus on Perry's sister, Winnie Winkle, business deals were made with King Features syndicate to create a local version of Branner's character, Sjors, to let the popular series continue with its focus on Sjors.

[4] Gradually Sjors would become more its own thing, with storylines set in the Netherlands and a new cast of characters which replaced the original creations of Branner.

[6] Piët would draw Sjors and Sjimmie until he retired in 1969, after which Jan Kruis continued and modernized the series.

In 1974 Piët made a celebrity comic strip based on the popular children's TV series Tita Tovenaar.