Marc Sleen

Cartoonist

Birthday December 30, 1922

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Belgium

DEATH DATE Nov 6, 2016 (93)

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About

Best known for the comic The Adventures of Nero, which ran for 55 years at a pace of two strips each day.

Before Fame

He was the political caricaturist for Flemish newspaper De Standaard following World War II.

Trivia

He made the 1992 Guinness Book of Records for drawing the same comic strip singlehandedly for over four decades.

Family Life

He was born in Gentbrugge, which is close to Ghent.

Associated With

He wrote a "Nero" story line in which the lead character gave Joseph Stalin an elixir that turned him into a pacifist.