Herr Seele
Flemish cartoonist, author, actor, piano tuner and piano collector
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Key Takeaways
- Herr Seele is the pseudonym of Peter Van Heirseele (born 13 April 1959, Torhout, Belgium), a Flemish cartoonist, author, actor and piano collector.
- The strip has been published in HUMO since 1981, with only a minor interruption from October 2011 until the spring of 2013.
- Since the spring of 2013, Cowboy Henk appears in the magazine again.
- When he was sixteen, he went to the Ghent Academy for the Fine Arts, where he completed his high school years and followed with a year in sculpting, after which he learned to tune and repair pianos at the Ystrad Mynach School in Wales.
- Career In 1981, he began drawing Cowboy Henk with Kamagurka, for the first time using the pseudonym Herr Seele .
Herr Seele is the pseudonym of Peter Van Heirseele (born 13 April 1959, Torhout, Belgium), a Flemish cartoonist, author, actor and piano collector.
He is mainly known for drawing the absurd humor comic strip Cowboy Henk, for which his colleague Kamagurka writes the scripts. The strip has been published in HUMO since 1981, with only a minor interruption from October 2011 until the spring of 2013. During this period, Seele made another gag-a-day comic series Dikke Billie Walter. Since the spring of 2013, Cowboy Henk appears in the magazine again.
Biography
Van Heirseele was born in Torhout and attended the Sint-Jozefsinstituut. When he was sixteen, he went to the Ghent Academy for the Fine Arts, where he completed his high school years and followed with a year in sculpting, after which he learned to tune and repair pianos at the Ystrad Mynach School in Wales. He then went to Florence, Italy, where he learned how to renovate them.
Career
In 1981, he began drawing Cowboy Henk with Kamagurka, for the first time using the pseudonym Herr Seele. Originally, the comic strip was intended for De Vooruit, but soon it was published exclusively in HUMO. Cowboy Henk was published in several countries, including Brazil (in a comics magazine named Animal), Scandinavia and the United States (RAW).
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