After Vandersteen handed the series to his successors the quality of the stories gradually went downhill to the point that it has less and less to do with the original set-up. After their first adventure in the land of Chocowakije, Rikki vanished from the series, and Wiske was instead joined by the young boy Franciscus Antigoon of Amoras (nicknamed "Suske"), who was adopted into her family. The series started with a young girl named Louise (nicknamed "Wiske"), who lived with her brother Rikki and their aunt Sidonia. Several books from this era have become classics, especially the stories Vandersteen drew for the youth magazine "Tintin". From the 1940s until the 1960s, the series was very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands thanks to the funny, engaging and suspenseful stories. It was created by Willy Vandersteen (1913-1990), and since his death, a dedicated team of writers and artists have continued publishing new stories. Suske en Wiske ( Spike and Suzy in the UK, Willy and Wanda in the USA, Luke and Lucy in the 2009 film and video game, Bob et Bobette in France, more on the Trivia subpage) is a long-running (since 1945) Flemish comic book series. The most famous children in the Dutch speaking world (Belgium, The Netherlands, The Dutch Antilles.)
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