Toon van Driel

{{short description|Dutch cartoonist and comics artist}}

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Toon van Driel (born 16 February 1945, Amsterdam) is a Dutch cartoonist, comics writer and comics artist, best known for his comics series F.C. Knudde, about an incompetent association football team, and De Stamgasten, which features anthropomorphic animals telling corny jokes in a bar.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/toon_van_driel.htm|title = Toon van Driel|website=www.lambiek.net}} He is the winner of the 1988 Stripschapprijs.{{cite web|url=http://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/de-stripschapprijs.php|title=38 jaar de Stripschapprijs - 1974–2011|publisher=Het Stripschap|accessdate=28 December 2011}} Van Driel was also the original writer of Eric Schreurs' comic strip Joop Klepzeiker.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/toon_van_driel.htm|title = Toon van Driel|website=www.lambiek.net}}