Henrik Rehr

Henrik Rehr is a Danish comics creator.

Life and career

Born in Odense on 28 October 1964, Henrik Rehr established himself in Danish comics magazines in the 1980s and published his first album Drømmen om langskibene in 1987. He received the Swedish Urhunden for best foreign album in 1995.
Rehr has made two comic books about the September 11 attacks, Tuesday and Tribeca Sunset. Rehr and his family lived 200 metres from the World Trade Center when the attacks happened.
His 2014 comic book Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I is a fictionalised biography of Gavrilo Princip. It became a mainstream breakthrough in Denmark and was nominated for.
With the Belgian writer, he made Dostoïevski. Le Soleil Noir, a biographical comic about the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in French in 2023.
Rehr has lived in New York City since 1995 with his Korean-Canadian wife Jenna Kim-Rehr.