Mark Retera
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Mark Retera is a comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 writer and artist.

He studied cognitive science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

 at the current Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University Nijmegen is a public university with a strong focus on research in Nijmegen, the Netherlands...

 before turning full-time artist.

He is the author of DirkJan
DirkJan
DirkJan is a comic, the creation of Dutch author and artist Mark Retera. It is also the name of its main character.DirkJan is a loser who stumbles through life in mostly three-panel comic strips...

and also draws caricatures for the Dutch weekly "Panorama".
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