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Gustave Verbeek (born Gustave Verbeck; 1867 – 1937) was an illustrator and cartoonist best known for his newspaper cartoons in the early 1900s featuring an inventive use of word play and visual storytelling tricks.Verbeek was of Dutch ancestry but was born in Nagasaki Japan the son of Reformed Church in America missionary Guido Verbeck. He grew up in Japan but went to Paris to study art and worked for several European newspapers creating illustrations and cartoons.