Wim Boost

Who was Wim Boost?

Willem Louis Joseph Boost, was a Dutch cartoonist, using the alias WiBo.

Boost started his career as a drawing teacher, and then started to work for the Toonder studios. He worked for several journals and newspapers including the Jeugdkampioen, Het Lichtspoor, Mandril, Haagse Post, Studio, and probably most noteworthy, the Dutch national newspaper de Volkskrant, for which he worked from 1951 until 1985. For many years he made a daily cartoon for the front page of the latter newspaper.