Peter Wienk various advertising agencies and drawing studios including the Toonder Studios of Marten Toonder a famous Dutch illustrator. In 1947, he joined Reclamebureau Van Alfen (Advertising), where amongst others the Flipje character (funny fruit character of a well-known Dutch preserve manufacturer) was made by Eelco ten Harmsen van der Beek ('Harmsen van der Beek'). Beek had his own art studio and accepted an assignment in 1949 to illustrate a new story of children's author Enid Blyton: Noddy. This first appeared as a strip in an English newspaper, but proved so successful that soon after the first book was published: "Noddy Goes
Black noddy Black noddy The black noddy or white-capped noddy ("Anous minutus") is a seabird from the family Laridae. It is a medium-sized species of tern with black plumage and a white cap. It closely resembles the lesser noddy ("Anous tenuirostris") with which it was at one time considered conspecific. The black noddy has slightly darker plumage and dark rather than pale lores. The black noddy was first formally described by German naturalist and lawyer Friedrich Boie in 1844 under its current binomial name. The genus name "Anous" is Ancient Greek for "stupid" or "foolish". The specific name "minutus" is the Latin