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Verbeck grew up in Japan, but left to study art in Paris.

He was the fourth child of Dutch/Belgian missionary Guido Verbeck, who became headmaster of a school in Tokyo that later became Japan's Imperial University. These strips are about a girl who encounters imaginary creatures and writes (inoffensive) limericks about them.Gustave Verbeck was born in Nagasaki, Japan. He created a short-lived strip in 1910 called The Loony Lyrics of Lulu.

For example, they find a "hippopautomobile" (a hippopotamus with a steering wheel and seating in its back as in an automobile), a "pelicanoe" (a pelican in which a rider could sit and paddle like a canoe), and a "samovarmint" (a samovar for serving tea with the head and claws of a wild animal). This strip features a group of four unnamed and interchangeable boys, who encounter a variety of strange creatures based on inventive word combinations. Verbeek's longest-running strip was The Terrors of the Tiny Tads, published by the Herald from to October 28, 1914. Verbeek created a total of 64 of these strips for The New York Herald, from Octoto January 15, 1905.

When inverted, the image shows a later scene of Lovekins in the beak of a giant roc: Muffaroo's canoe has become the bird's beak, the fish has turned into the bird's head, the island has become its body and the trees its legs, and Muffaroo has turned into Lovekins. For example, in one often-reproduced panel, Muffaroo appears in a canoe next to a tree-covered island, and is being attacked by a large fish. The two main characters were designed such that each would be perceived as the other character when inverted. His signature usually appeared at the top of the first/last panel, upside down. Verbeek is most noted for The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, a weekly 6-panel comic strip in which the first half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, then the reader would turn the page up-side-down, and the inverted illustrations with additional captions describing the scenes told the second half of the story, for a total of 12 panels.

Verbeek's strips could be seen differently when viewed upside down (this image will flip upside-down automatically)