A book with Maas' 'Mug en Zifter' stories was published by Har van Fulpen's Drukwerk in 1976. He created the buck-toothed boy characters 'Mug en Zifter' (a pun on the Dutch word "muggenzifter", roughly translated as "hair-splitter") and contributed to underground magazines like Joost Swarte's Modern Papier (1972), Evert Geradts' Tante Leny Presenteert (1972) and Aloha (from 1972).
He self-published the underground periodical Formule S, of which only one issue appeared in April 1973. When he was 12 he sent in jokes to the Dutch comedy duo The Mounties.
In his spare time, he worked as a cartoonist and artist of comic stories.
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Little known is that he was also a comic artist, earlier in his career.īorn in 1951 as Dirk Willem Herman Maas in Heemstede, he studied at the Free Academy in The Hague for a while. He was the first Dutch director to receive this award. Dick Maas received several national and international film awards, most notably the Grand Prix at the Festival of Avoriaz (France). Along with Paul Verhoeven and Jan De Bont he is one of the few Dutch film directors who acquired cult status both in his home country as well as internationally. He is known for his subversive mix between horror and sardonic comedy. Dick Maas is best known as the director of such cult film classics as 'De Lift' ('The Elevator', 1983), 'Flodder' (1986) and 'Amsterdamned' (1988).