'De Avonturen van Pedro en José', 1935.
Frederik Hermanus Hofmans was born in 1896 in Amsterdam. He studied drawing at the Hendrik de Keyzer Academie and worked for a few years as a lithographer at Van Leer's Cliché Fabriek. Fred Hofmans traveled through Mexico, the United Stated of America and Canada, where he found inspiration for his comics. His work was published in magazines Het Weekblaadje voor de Roomse Jeugd, and included titles such as 'Zimba en Ling Po', 'De Avonturen van Pedro en José' (1935), 'De Lotgevallen van Jack, den Derden Stuurman, en Jim, den Scheepsjongen' (1936) and 'Sandy Jack en z'n Schaduw Black'. He died in 1964.
'De Avonturen van Pedro en José', 1935.