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Pondus
''Pondus'' is a comic strip created by the Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli. Since its start in 1995, it has become one of the most successful comic strips in Scandinavia. It has been translated to several languages, including Danish, English, German, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Latin, Sami, Swedish and Esperanto. In 2000 it inspired its own magazine. Publication history Øverli initially developed a strip titled ''A-laget'' (A-team) in 1995, prior to leaving the magazine '' Pyton''. This early version focused on three characters who were fanatical football-supporters. By the time the strip in its earliest form was first published in a small local newspaper ''Vest-Nytt'' of Sotra on 28 October 1995, it had taken the name ''Pondus''.pdf In 1996 it began a four-year run as a supportin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters In Pondus
The cartoon strip ''Pondus'' by Frode Øverli has a number of major and minor recurring characters. Pondus' family Pondus Pondus (real name Patrick) is a living football encyclopedia in his mid thirties (once quoted to be 35), and an avid fan of Liverpool F.C. and AC/DC (he claims his favorite song is ''Shoot to thrill''). He is married to Beate, and father to their two children, Påsan and Sneipen. He actively plays football at "old-boys" level, giving him opportunity to play hard and occasionally perform like the player he dreams he is. He has both seriously injured others, and been seriously injured himself. When it comes to knowledge about British football, he has nearly idiot savant expertise, about teams and players down to the obscure Lower Leagues. He worked for several years as a bus driver, but did at one point get too much exposure to "the freaks that use public transportation", and as pub-owner Turid-Laila was leaving for a transglobal sailing trip, Pondus quit hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frode Øverli
Frode Øverli (born 15 August 1968 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian comic strip cartoonist, considered one of the most successful in Scandinavia. Biography He began his career in 1984 when his Parody, parodies of ''The Phantom'' became a regular feature in the Norwegian publication of the ''Phantom'' serial comic book.PDF At that time, Frode was still a student, but dedicated much of his time to writing. Two years later, he was a regular cartoonist for the recently launched humour magazine ''Pyton'', notable for its gratuitous toilet humour. In the beginning he illustrated stories written by authors Dag E. Kolstad, John Kåre Raake, and later Bjørn Ousland. However, he eventually resigned to write his own material, as it was limited what the others could write for him. The best known c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sproing Award
The Sproing Award is awarded by Norsk Tegneserieforum (NTF), an organisation to promote interest and understanding for comics in Norway. Since 1987, the award has been presented for the ''Best Norwegian Strips'', a comic strip or comic book by a Norwegian, and ''Best Translated Strips'', an international comic strip/comic book translated into Norwegian. Since 2003, there has also been awarded a Sproing for ''Best Comics Debut''. At NTF's annual meeting, a jury is selected which reads all publications of the year and choose five nominees for the national and international classes, and three nominees for the debut class. Initially, voting was exclusive to NTF members, but has been opened to the public in the 2000s. Best translated comics *1987: Carl Barks, for ''Donald Duck: I det gamle Persia'' ( Egmont Serieforlaget) *1988: Bill Watterson, for ''Tommy & Tigern #1'' ('' Calvin & Hobbes'') ( Semic) *1989: Brian Bolland and Alan Moore, for ''Det glade vanvidd'' (Semic) *1990: Francoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adamson Awards
Adamson Awards is a Swedish award awarded to notable cartoonists, named after the famous Swedish comic strip "Adamson" ( Silent Sam). There are two award categories: International and Swedish cartoonist. They have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) since 1965. There have been years in that time when neither award or only one of the two awards was presented. Best International Comic-Strip r comic bookCartoonist *1965 – Chester Gould, USA; ''Dick Tracy'' *1966 – Harvey Kurtzman, USA; ''Djungelboken''; skapare av ''Mad'' (''The Jungle Book''; creator of '' Mad'') *1967 – Charles M. Schulz, USA; ''Snobben'' (''Peanuts'') *1968 – Jean-Claude Forest, France; '' Barbarella'' *1969 – Harold R. Foster, USA; ''Prins Valiant'' (''Prince Valiant'') *1970 – Robert Crumb, USA; '' Fritz the Cat'', etc. *1971 – Hergé (Georges Remi), Belgium; ''The Adventures of Tintin'' *1972 – Guido Crepax, Italy; '' Valentina'', etc. *1974 – René Goscinny, Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyton
''Pyton'' was a Norwegian comic book A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ... series which was produced by the company Gevion forlag, Gevion, and afterwards Bladkompaniet, between the years 1986 until 1996. An anthology magazine with no major main character, its style of humor focused mostly on satire, satiric and toilet humour, including sexual, toilet, and farting jokes. Most of ''Pytons material was produced by the magazine's own staff, but a handful of foreign comics also appeared in the magazine, including Gary Larson's ''The Far Side'', and the German comic ''Werner (comics), Werner''. The name is Norwegian for Pythonidae, python, a term which in Scandinavia also has gained a slang adjective meaning of "disgusting" or "sick". The magazine also adopted a python snak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |