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Sweden

1920

In short

Swedish comics are called tecknade serier, or simply serier.

Elov Persson's Kronblom (1927) ran in the weeklies 91:an and Allers, Rune Andréasson's Bamse grew from television shorts into a weekly half-page strip, and an organised comics culture has existed since Seriefrämjandet was founded in 1968.

Comics from Sweden

From the shelf

  • Cover of Kronblom
  • Cover of Bamse
  • Cover of Silent Sam
  • Cover of Arne Anka
  • Cover of Rocky
  • Cover of The Electric State
  • Cover of Kalle Anka & C:o
  • Cover of 91:an Karlsson

Sweden in numbers · 01 • 04

340

72

1920

2000s

Artists

Artists from Sweden in the archive.

Comics from Sweden in the archive.

Silent Sam, the earliest comic from Sweden in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Sweden began.

tecknade serier

tecknade serier · Comics from Sweden

History

Sweden in 2 chapters

  1. 1927

    to 1967

    Chapter 01

    Weekly-magazine strips

    Elov Persson's Kronblom (1927) was published in the weeklies 91:an and Allers.

    Cover of Kronblom

  2. 1968

    to today

    Chapter 02

    An organised comics culture

    Seriefrämjandet, founded in 1968, runs Bild & Bubbla, the Urhunden prize and the Seriewikin, and Serieteket in Stockholm, Sweden's only special library for comics, opened on 18 November 1996. Contemporary creators include Martin Kellerman, whose Rocky is an autobiographical Stockholm strip, and Liv Strömquist.

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