Jeroen Funke/Netherland
(b. 1976)
http://www.lamelos.nl
Jeroen Funke is part of the comics collective Lamelos. Coming from the Kampen art academy he has been working with Aleks Deurloo, Boris and Sam Peeters on a collective oeuvre since 1997. Their most famous collective creation is 'Kaasheld en Poephoofd', which has appeared in self-published comic books, as well as the magazines Zone 5300 and MYX. Outside of Lamelos, Jeroen has contributed to Jippo, Boekie Boekie, the 'Bloeddorst' anthology and projects like 'Teken Mijn Verhaal'.
Lamelos is a comics collective consisting of Aleks Deurloo (b. 4 May 1975, Emmen), Boris Peeters (b. 4 Aug. 1974, Venray), Jeroen Funke (b. 13 May 1976) and Sam Peeters (b. 15 April 1976). All coming from the art academy in Kampen, they have been collaborating on a colorful oeuvre with jolly and absurd comic strips since 1997.
His characters 'Victor & Vishnu' have appeared in several mini-comics, and from 2008 to 2009 on the back-page of the Malmberg magazine Okki ('Victor & Vishnu op de Vies Planeet'). For Jippo, he has drawn characters like Juf Kriebel, Joost, Bemoeibeest and Professor Uhm in illustrations and the 'Strippo' comic. In 2009 he illustrated 'Graaf Sandwich', a children's book by Jan Paul Schutten about food.