Theo van den Boogaard

He is best known for co-creating Sjef van Oekel, a long-running comic strip based on the TV character, written by Wim T. Schippers.

[2] Theo van den Boogaard was born in 1948 in Castricum, in the Netherlands province of North Holland.

[4] This work has been recognized as the first Dutch underground comic, but it faced criticism due to featuring a naked woman.

In 1969 he started in Aloha (and soon after in Chick) the series Ans en Hans krijgen de kans (Ans and Hans Get the Chance), which was noteworthy for its liberal treatment of sexuality, and gave him recognition by Andreas Knigger, a comics critic who described Boogaard as "the greatest European underground comics artist".

[7] In 2016, he published Four Winters In a Row, a set of illustrations paired with a song of his, about a man struggling to find happiness.

[9] He has spoken of his struggles to keep drawing while undergoing chemotherapy, and discussed his fight for happiness in his Four Winters In a Row.