Marc Verhaegen Batgirl

While attending a regular school, Marc Verhaegen also took courses in drawing at the Academy of Kontich when he was only 10 years old. He eventually went to study at the Saint-Luc Institute, where he specialized in animation film. He did his first comics work in the underground scene, producing comics with the character 'Fil Marver' (some in cooperation with Eric Leeraar) and the bicycle-racing comic 'Cycloman' (also with Eric Leeraar), which he signed with the pseudonym Marver.He got a job as an animator, and collaborated on several projects, such as the 'Wonderland' show for the BRT and short animation sequences for 'Sesame Street'. Since Marc wanted to do something different, he was glad to hear from a friend that the Standaard Uitgeverij was looking for an artist to draw the comic series 'Boes'. He did this from 1987 to 1988, after which he joined the Vandersteen Studios to work on the famous 'Suske en Wiske' series. He started out writing some short stories, which were followed by his first long story, 'De Krakende Carcas', in 1992. He was also present in the Suske en Wiske Weekblad, where he started the new series 'Calpako' in 1996. Under the pseudonym Xao Pi, he also made a number of gags of the series 'Ted en Fred' for the weekly.In April, 2002, Verhaegen succeeded Paul Geerts as the regular artist/writer on the 'Suske en Wiske' comic. He made a couple of trilogies and some independent stories, until he was fired from the studios in February 2005. The studios stated that Verhaegen wasn't capable of working in a team, but there was also a conflict about his choice of subjects. Verhaegen wanted to make a story about a girl that died in Auschwitz. After his discharge, he used the World War II theme for his next project, the 'Senne en Sanne' strip, which was published in a supplement of Kidsweek.
This is his character Sanne as Batgirl.
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