Piet Deunhouwer

Piet Deunhouwer was born in Utrecht and studied at the Art Academies of The Hague and Rotterdam. At the age of seventeen, his first comic, 'Koos', about a young soccer player, was published in De Ketelbinkiekrant, edited by Wim Meuldijk. Unfortunately, Deunhouwer was drafted for army service and was unable to finish the comic, which ended abruptly, and was soon replaced by another soccer comic, 'Kick Wilstra' by Henk Sprenger.

After his service in the army, Deunhouwer found a job at an advertising agency. In the fifties, he created the newspaper comic 'Gerrit Tof' for Het Rotterdams Nieuwsblad. He did a lot of commercial work, and was one of the few Dutch artists to develop a three-dimensional comic, called 'Dick Gable', for Santos, a bubblegum factory. Deunhouwer became an art teacher at a school in the North of Holland, and devoted himself to painting.