Max Andersson (born 1962) is a Swedish comic creator and film maker, mostly doing "

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style" and "artistic" comics. His

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have mainly been published in Swedish albums, and in the Swedish art magazine ''Galago''. With the publication of his

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''Pixy'' by Fantagraphics Books in 1993, Andersson became the first modern Swedish artist to have a comic album published in the

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. In the '90s he was a frequent contributor to the

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'' Zero Zero''. He is also the creator of the

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''Death & Candy''. The Greek anarchopunk ban
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named their albums "Drug Called Future" (2006) and "Some Key According to Death and Candy"(2009) in honor of Max Andersson's comics.

External links

maxandersson.comGalagoBiography from "internationales literaturfestival berlin"
1962 births Living people Alternative cartoonists Swedish cartoonists Swedish animators Swedish comics artists {{Sweden-film-bio-stub