Mau Heymans

Mau Heymans ( born April 14, 1961 in Veldhoven ) is a Dutch writer and artist of Disney comics. He and his older brother, Bas Heymans among the most productive and best-known Disney animators of their country.

Life

In his childhood, Mau Heymans read with enthusiasm Disney comics. A special fascination exercised especially the works of Carl Barks and Daniel Branca on him.

Later Mau Heymans lived with his brother Bas in Amsterdam, where she Underground Comix anfertigten together. At this time discovered Mau Heymans in a secondhand bookstore Disney comic books, which were known to him from his childhood. He thought he could reach the level of some of the newer artist. Animated by the idea of being able to earn his living as a cartoonist to Heymans made ​​a self-taught to the drawing. It took almost a year until it could satisfy some extent his work. On the advice of his grandmother Heymans sent the comic to the Oberon -Verlag. This invited Mau Heymans and finally gave him a contract to illustrate a written by Jan Kruse history. So writes and draws Mau Heymans since 1987 for this publisher Duck Tales.