Han Peekel

Han Peekel (6 October 1947 – 14 December 2022) was a Dutch television producer, writer, radio- and television presenter. He was best known as presenter of television programs as  and . Peekel also produced television shows and wrote books.

Biography
Peekel started in the 1960s as a singer of Dutch songs and was presenter at Radio Veronica. He became known for his television appearenaces. The television program  about comics and cartoons started in 1983 and Peekel presented the program for seventeen years. Since 2009 he was the presenter of .

In 2012 he became Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his services to television, radio and cabaret. He received the award from the mayor of Hilversum Pieter Broertjes.

Peekel died during a holiday in Sanur at the Indonesian island Bali on 14 December 2022, at the age of 75.

Comic cameo appearances
Peekel had a cameo appearance in the comics
As a colleague of  in album 12 of Jack, Jacky and the Juniors.
As a courtier at the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in the Spike and Suzy album 

References

Category:Dutch singers
Category:Television producers
Category:Dutch television presenters
Category:1947 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:Entertainers from Rotterdam
Category:Writers from Rotterdam