''Ensamma mamman'' ("single mom") is a

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comic strip created by

Cecilia Torudd Cecilia Torudd (born 1942) is a Swedish illustrator and author born in Lund. Since the 1970s, she has been a contributing illustrator for the children's magazine '' Kamratposten''. Background She is the daughter of Albert Levan, and Karin Mal ...

. ''Ensamma mamman'' first made a brief appearance in ''

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'' in 1985. It was well received by the readers and returned in 1987 as a fixed feature. Torudd continued drawing it until 1991, when it was syndicated by Bull, and it has since been rerun in many newspapers. ''Ensamma mamman'' deals with a

single mother A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, bec ...

and her two teenage children, her 14-year-old son Beppe and her daughter Mia, 17 years old. ''Ensamma mamman'' received the Urhunden Prize by the '' Swedish Association for Promotion of Comics'', in 1989.

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