Gustave Verbeek

Gustave Verbeek was a DutchAmerican illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his newspaper cartoons in the early 1900s featuring an inventive use of word play and visual storytelling tricks.

Verbeek was of Dutch ancestry. He was born as Gustave Verbeck in Nagasaki, Japan in 1867, the son of Reformed Church in America missionary Guido Verbeck.

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