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Published January 1, 1995
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Rune Andréasson
114 books5 followersRune Herbert Emanuel Andréasson (11 August 1925 – 15 December 1999) was a Swedish cartoonist and illustrator.
Andréasson has created children's comics since 1944, mainly for the Swedish market, but his works have been published in several languages. He created mostly his own, original characters and features, which included the comic features "Brum", "Lille Rikard och Hans Katt" (Little Rikard and his cat), "Rulle och Maja" (Rulle and Maja), "Nicke Bock" (Nicke goat), "Åsnan Kal" (Kal the donkey), "Nalle Ritar och Berättar" (Nalle draws and tells), "Teddy", "Habibu" and "Pellefant".
In the late 40's, he had a few bit parts in movies, most notably in Ingmar Bergman's Music in Darkness. A later Bergman collaboration was animating a short sequence in Summer Interlude.
His most famous creation, however, is "Bamse", created in the 1960s, an often educational comic featuring "the world's strongest bear". This feature was highly successful, and was followed by several animated cartoons, as well as a comic book. The comic book started in 1973, featured exclusively Swedish material, and is still one of Sweden's most popular comic books today.
In the 1970s, Andréasson began contracting other artists to do the artwork, while he still wrote the stories and kept a strict editorial control of the contents. For example, he refused to publish commercial ads in a magazine aimed at children. He was also rather restrictive with using his creations for commercial merchandising (sans for a few exceptional cases).
He retired in 1990, and left his comic to the publishing house Egmont.
Andréasson has created children's comics since 1944, mainly for the Swedish market, but his works have been published in several languages. He created mostly his own, original characters and features, which included the comic features "Brum", "Lille Rikard och Hans Katt" (Little Rikard and his cat), "Rulle och Maja" (Rulle and Maja), "Nicke Bock" (Nicke goat), "Åsnan Kal" (Kal the donkey), "Nalle Ritar och Berättar" (Nalle draws and tells), "Teddy", "Habibu" and "Pellefant".
In the late 40's, he had a few bit parts in movies, most notably in Ingmar Bergman's Music in Darkness. A later Bergman collaboration was animating a short sequence in Summer Interlude.
His most famous creation, however, is "Bamse", created in the 1960s, an often educational comic featuring "the world's strongest bear". This feature was highly successful, and was followed by several animated cartoons, as well as a comic book. The comic book started in 1973, featured exclusively Swedish material, and is still one of Sweden's most popular comic books today.
In the 1970s, Andréasson began contracting other artists to do the artwork, while he still wrote the stories and kept a strict editorial control of the contents. For example, he refused to publish commercial ads in a magazine aimed at children. He was also rather restrictive with using his creations for commercial merchandising (sans for a few exceptional cases).
He retired in 1990, and left his comic to the publishing house Egmont.
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July 12, 2010
I adore Swedish children's books, but every rule has its exception. In my case, the exception's name is Bamse. This insufferably popular bear could almost have been created as a parody of Swedish left-wing PC thinking. A vague cross between Superman, Winnie the Pooh and John Lennon, he's not just the strongest bear in the world, but also the kindest. He believes in the essential goodness of human nature to a teeth-gritting extent, and managed to reform Vargen (the bad boy of the series) simply by being nice him until he saw the light and abandoned his evil ways. The one character who's beyond reform is Krösus Sork ("Croesus Vole"), a grasping, super-rich capitalist rodent who's invariably outwitted by Bamse and left gnashing his teeth at the end. Bamse is married, with four children; the youngest, I kid you not, suffers from a mild mental handicap, but he loves them all equally.
When Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt met Bill Clinton in 1993, he gave him the Bamse necktie pictured above as a present, "to remind the US that because they were the world's strongest country, they also needed to be the kindest". The idea, Bildt claimed, had been suggested by his four year old daughter. Clinton, cool as ever, said he loved it, and was proud to be the only person in the US who had one; several people in the Swedish diplomatic corps apparently sighed with relief. I'd like to make a public apology to all my American friends for this regrettable incident. Honestly, Swedes aren't usually like that.
November 18, 2012
Plush equivalent of a gary-Stu. Should have seen Ms face when this irritating furry was at Göteborg book fair
August 25, 2011
omg sååååå bra.
March 27, 2013
Bamse är så stark och så snäll att han blir så tråkig!
February 22, 2026
yeah isnt it great. when my sister (who is really my mom) stopped sleeping chawing feet (skavfötters) with me when i was 7, my granddad read bamse (also bobo) to me. i dont know how long. couldnt have been much, since he constantly molested in my sleep each time, and eventually i just said no. i started being afraid of the dark, not nightmares though. finally after 35 whole years of torments, im not afraid anymore. ive done 1 million bicep curls since 2 years back. and being afraid of the dark is actually worse than nightmares. nightmares stop, they dont go on that long, but just 5 minutes in the darkness with weird sounds around you freak out worse than ever. i actually used to get warm adrenaline shivers. if you havent experienced that i dont recommend it.
as nietzsche said though"for when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks ito you". if you feel like shit, dont make it worse. if youre afraid of the dark, always have a lamp on. if they say you cant, have your desktop comp on 24/7 they surely wont complain there, say youre making monopoly money scripting in MMORPGs or mining bitcoin that will shut em up. or even better, make a huge useless 3d render animation that runs for years. i mean, it could impress even. theres blender for that its FOSS.
as for bamse itself, i tried reading a comic decades later. the worst useless piece of trash ever. dont recommend this to anyone, dont read it to your kids, dont molest them while they sleep, if you wanna force this comic on them.
as nietzsche said though"for when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks ito you". if you feel like shit, dont make it worse. if youre afraid of the dark, always have a lamp on. if they say you cant, have your desktop comp on 24/7 they surely wont complain there, say youre making monopoly money scripting in MMORPGs or mining bitcoin that will shut em up. or even better, make a huge useless 3d render animation that runs for years. i mean, it could impress even. theres blender for that its FOSS.
as for bamse itself, i tried reading a comic decades later. the worst useless piece of trash ever. dont recommend this to anyone, dont read it to your kids, dont molest them while they sleep, if you wanna force this comic on them.
August 25, 2011
This book is for younger children, but they can also be fun for older kids :)
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