Cowboy Henk, tegnet og forfattet av Kamagurka og Herr Seele, debuterte i magasinet Forward 24. september 1981, senere figurerte han i magasinet Humo, og gjorde det stort internasjonalt i Art Spiegelmans magasin RAW og i franske L'echo des Savanes og Fluide Glacial. Født ut av den belgiske surrealismen, står Cowboy Henk i dag som en stor inspirator for vår tids belgiske tegneseriebølge. Og som Umberto Eco sier: «Cowboy Henk er ikke alltid bra, men når han er bra, er han jo virkelig bra.»
...enk gag appeared in print. Kamagurka wrote the jokes and dialogues while his friend, Herr Seele, drew the stories. Originally Cowboy Henk appeared in black-and-white as a gag-a-day comic of only four to six panels per episode. Got to have some weird logic to come up with henk. The ones with the most words are bad. And the spem made zero sense, even in a random way. Wigbate, Because childish obnoxious random humour is always funny. You seem like a dumb little kid who laughs at fart jokes. The new Cowboy Henk book, The Invasion of the Breakfaast Snatchers will be coming out by the end of June. This is the 4th publication in the complete Cowboy Henk works. Limited numbered edition of 500. Language is Dutch. Het kunstenaarsduo neemt op onnavolgbare wijze een loopje met de kunstgeschiedenis, schopt tegen heilige huisjes en brengt een hommage aan barokmeester Peter-Paul Rubens. Een glansrol in de expo is -uiteraard- weggelegd voor hun gekuifde stripheld Cowboy Henk, erfgenaam van het surreal...