''FF med Bert'' (''Föräldrafritt med Bert'', ''FF'', ''Berttidningen''), was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. ...

published between the years of

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and

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. The main comics, ''Berts dagbok'', were created by

Johan Unenge Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller * Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group ** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group * Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Jo-Han, a ...

and Måns Gahrton, and are based on the

Bert Diaries The Bert Diaries are a series of novels written in the form of a diary, by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. The main character is a Swedish teenager called Bert Ljung, living in Öreskoga, a fictional town in Sweden, in the ...

Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson Anders Jacobsson (born 1963) and Sören Olsson (born 1964) are two Swedish-born cousins who are writers of children's literature and young adult fiction. They are best known for their books about Sune and Bert, but also Tuva-Lisa and Emanuel ...

. Bert Ljung's look is similar to the one of the books. Even

comic album a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

s were published. In the year

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the title was shortened to ''Bert'', and the number of comics increased. Bert Ljung debuted as a comic character in 1993, as a guest comic in the Fantomen ( Phantom) comic book. Even other comics did guest appearances. Except for comics, reports aimed at young people (like interviews with sportspeople or pop and rock stars) were published.

References

{{reflist Swedish comics 1993 comics debuts 2002 comics endings 1993 establishments in Sweden 2002 disestablishments in Sweden Comics based on novels Gag-a-day comics Fictional diaries Comics set in Sweden