Herr Seele

Herr Seele, the pseudonym of Peter Van Heirseele (Torhout, Belgium, 13 April 1959), is a Flemish cartoonist, author, actor, piano tuner and piano collector.

He is mainly known for the absurd humor comic strip Cowboy Henk, for which his colleague Kamagurka writes the scripts, while he makes the drawings. The comic 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. 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 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.