Håkon Aasnes (born 13 February 1943) is a

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comics creator, illustrator and

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. He was born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

. In the 1970s, he wrote and illustrated several stories for the magazine '. He drew the Disney characters licensed for Norway from 1976 to 1979, or intermittently until 1993. Aasnes was also the first Norwegian to draw for Disney, and whose own drawings, stories, and scenarios based on his own ideas received official publication by Disney. From 1983 he has written and illustrated the comic strip ''

Smørbukk ''Smørbukk'' is a Norwegian comic strip. It was started in 1938 by text writer Andreas Haavoll and illustrator Jens R. Nilssen. The first Smørbukk story was based on the fairytale Buttercup collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. The strip appears in ...

'', and from 2005 also the comic strip '. He has created several comics series, including ''Seidel og Tobram'', ''Vi på Eiketun'', ''Annika'', ''Gråtass'' and ''Olsenbanden''. As of January 2020, he has contributed to 440 cartoons according to the records o
Mineregneserie.no
a cartoon indexing site.

Awards

* 1981: Kulturdepartementets for barne- og ungdomslitteratur pris (Norwegian cultural department's prize for children and youth literature) ** Awarded for this comic ''Fra skolebenk til gårdsarbeid'' (From school bench to yard work) * 2016: The Sproing Award.

References

1943 births Living people Comics creators from Oslo {{norway-writer-stub