Baanan

Johan Baanders (May 11, 1955 - September 1991) was a Brunanter comics artist, best known for the comic strip Micropolis. He signed as Baanan, a wordplay on his surname and the Dutch word for "banana" (banaan).

Biography
Baanders was born in Koningstad.

His first comics were How Lovely! and Unlucky Lucy, strips written by Hans Leerdam and published in Wop!. In 1984, Baanan started his own comic, Micropolis. When the magazine ceased publication in 1985, he self-published the next issues.

Baanders was found dead in his apartment in 1991 of a heroin overdose.