Arild Midthun (born 6 May 1964) is a Norwegian illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist. He was born in

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. Among his early production is the comics strip ''Patrick & Co'' in the newspaper ''

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'' 1977, a spy series written by Tormod Løkling. His artistical breakthrough was the strip series ''Sirkus'' from 1980 to 1982, written by

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Eirik Ildahl Eirik Ildahl (born 19 June 1957) is a Norwegian comics writer, scriptwriter, playwright and novelist. He was born in Hamar. Among his comics series is ''Sirkus'' from 1980 onwards (with co-writer Terje Nordberg and illustrator Arild Midthun), an ...

and

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. He was a central illustrator for the humorous magazines ''Norsk MAD'' from 1981, and ''

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'' from 1986 to 1995. He was awarded the Sproing Award in 1988, for the album ''Troll: Sølvskatten'', jointly with

. From 1995 he was appointed as illustrator for the newspaper ''

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'', and from 2004 he began drawing for the

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magazine ''Donald Duck & Co''.

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1964 births Living people Artists from Bergen Norwegian comics artists Norwegian illustrators Disney comics artists {{Norway-artist-stub