Marc Daniëls (10 July 1959 – 10 May 2021),[1] [2] [3] also known as De Marck, was a Belgian cartoonist and painter. He ran Studio Max together with Rik De Wulf between 1999 and 2010.
Daniëls studied Visual Arts at the Royal Atheneum Brussels in Jette.[4] He drew illustrations and cartoons for Brussels newspapers.[4]
In 1999, he founded Studio Max! alongside De Wulf.[4] They came up with the comic strip Stam en Pilou for the youth philately of the Belgian Post, which was released in album form in 2000.[4] In 2010, the 25th album in the series was released. In the same year, the studio was closed.[4] In 2011, this comic series got a comic strip wall in Brussels on Rue des Alexiens/Cellebroersstraat.[4]
In 2009, he made the album Alexander the Great 1 in Jacques Martin's educational series The Travels of Alex, together with De Wulf, among others. In 2011, Daniëls drew a seven-part comic series on a scenario by Danny Verbiest about the Brussels painter and art dealer Geert Van Bruaene (1891-1964).[4]
Daniëls died at the age of 61 from the effects of COVID-19.[3]