1. Marcel Honoree Nestor Neels, known as Marc Sleen, was a Belgian comics artist.
17 Facts About Marc Sleen
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Marc Sleen was mostly known for his humorous adventure comic The Adventures of Nero and Co.
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Marc Sleen's work is admired for its absurd and sometimes satirical comedy, as well for the fact that he worked completely singlehandedly without any assistance for 45 years on end, a feat that landed him a spot in The Guinness Book of Records in 1992.
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Marc Sleen was born as Marcel Neels in Gentbrugge, near Ghent.
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Marc Sleen was tortured and put in the death cell, but saved by the fact that after D-Day the officers moved all the prisoners to a different prison, where he could escape.
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Marc Sleen contributed illustrations and short comics for the newspaper and the youth supplement, and made illustrations and his first comics for the magazine Ons Volk.
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Marc Sleen was a courtroom sketch artist for a while.
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In October 1947, Marc Sleen started a new series, The adventures of detective Van Zwam in the newspaper De Nieuwe Gids.
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Besides Nero Marc Sleen drew several other comic strip series, many of them gag-a-day comics, for magazines like 't Kapoentje and Ons Volkske.
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Marc Sleen drew a daily cartoon during the Tour de France from 1947 until 1965, called De Ronde van Frankrijk.
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Between 1950 and 1965 Marc Sleen published Nero in Het Volk, after which he moved to De Standaard.
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Marc Sleen designed album covers for records by Flemish actor, comedian and singer Jef Burm.
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Marc Sleen was known as a traveller and animal friend.
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Marc Sleen made 35 safaris to Africa between 1961 and 1991, making more than 20 documentaries for the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep, mostly for the TV show "Allemaal Beestjes".
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Marc Sleen is commonly considered one of the big names of the Flemish comics, together with Willy Vandersteen and Jef Nys.
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Marc Sleen died at the age of 93 on the evening of 6 November 2016.
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Marc Sleen's comics were drawn rapidly in a "flexible and loose" style.