Hanco Kolk

Hanco Kolk (born 11 March 1957, Den Helder) is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his collaborations with Peter de Wit, with whom he made Gilles de Geus and S1NGLE.

Biography

Kolk made his debut in the Dutch underground comics magazine Tante Leny presenteert!. In 1980 he was one of the founders of Studio Arnhem, a collective of comics artists and writers. After working anonymous for the magazine Donald Duck for several years he went to the magazine Eppo, where he made the humoristic historical adventure comics series Gilles de Geus together with Peter de Wit from 1983 to 2003. Kolk and De Wit often work together and have created comics such as the photo novel Mannetje & Mannetje (1988), which was adapted into a TV sketch show for VPRO in 1989 and the gag-a-day comic S1NGLE (2001), which was also adapted for television as a sitcom on NET 5. The men also presented an educational TV documentary series about drawing comics and cartoons for Teleac in 1992. They also made a comics adaptation of the TV series Laat Maar Zitten for VARA TV Magazine. In 1988 they founded their own publishing company De Plaatjesmaker.