Mads Eriksen (born 15 July 1977) is a
Norwegian cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...
, best known for the
comic strip
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s ''
M'' and ''Gnom''.
Biography
Eriksen was born in
Malvik Municipality
Malvik is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik i ...
. His career in
comics
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began in 2000, when his first comic strip, ''Gnom'', was accepted into ''Smult'', a magazine dedicated to promoting promising Norwegian cartoonists. ''Gnom'' quickly became popular but when
Bladkompaniet ceased publication of ''Smult'', Eriksen abandoned ''Gnom'' and began his new series, ''
M'' as a guest strip in the monthly magazine ''
Pondus''. The initial of Mads, ''M'' is a semi-
auto-biographical,
surrealistic
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strip featuring himself and his girlfriend, "Madammen" (English: The Madam). In 2002, ''M'' began daily publication in ''
Dagbladet
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'', initially on a "guest" basis, until the strip became a permanent fixture, causing ''
Hägar the Horrible
''Hägar the Horrible'' is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared on February 4, 1973 (in Sunday papers) and the next day in daily ne ...
'' to be removed from the newspaper's comics section.
[
In 2005 Bladkompaniet published an album containing the complete ''Gnom'', and ''M'' got its own dedicated magazine in December 2006 when ]Schibsted
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Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The ...
forlagene published the first ''M'' magazine, with a new issue once a month.Adresseavisen
(; commonly known as ''Adressa'') is a regional newspaper published daily, except Sundays, in Trondheim, Norway. The paper has been in circulation since 1767 and is one of the oldest newspapers in Norway after Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler which ...
'', and subsequently appear on the internet portal start.no. In the summer of 2008, Eriksen stopped producing comic strips, citing the pressure of deadlines and illness as the reason. He told the newspaper ''Dagens Næringsliv
''(DN)'' ( Norwegian for "''Today's Business Affairs''"), is a Norwegian daily newspaper focusing on economic and business current affairs. it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway by circulation. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, appoint ...
'' in September 2009 that he had started drawing again.geek
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, he is a big fan of several popular cultural phenomena, especially ''Star Wars
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''.
With a comeback in ''Pondus'' # 10/21 in november 2021, Mads Eriksen has started to draw cartoons once again after his burnout in early 2010s.
Awards
* 2002: Raptus debutantprisen[
]
Sources
''M'' albums
Schibsted
* https://archive.today/20211207131416/https://serienett.no/aktuelt/mads-eriksen/ Archive link to https://serienett.no/aktuelt/mads-eriksen/
;Footnotes
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eriksen, Mads
1977 births
Living people
People from Malvik
Norwegian comic strip cartoonists
Norwegian comics writers
Norwegian comics artists