''Smørbukk'' is a Norwegian comic strip. It was started in 1938 by text writer

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and illustrator

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. The first Smørbukk story was based on the fairytale

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collected by

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. The strip appears in the children's magazine ''

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'', as well as in separate albums. From 1959/1960 to 1983 the series was illustrated by

Solveig Muren Sanden Solveig Muren Sanden (17 April 1918 – 23 November 2013) was a Norwegian illustrator and comics artist. She was born in Vrådal in Kviteseid. She published her first illustration in the children's magazine ''Norsk Barneblad'' in 1932. She is k ...

. Later text writers have been

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and

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. From 1983

Håkon Aasnes Håkon Aasnes (born 13 February 1943) is a Norwegian comics creator, illustrator and writer. He was born in Oslo. In the 1970s, he wrote and illustrated several stories for the magazine '. He drew the Disney characters licensed for Norway from 1 ...

took over as illustrator. The anniversary book ''Smørbukk 70 år'' was published in 2008.

Legacy

In 1973 Solveig Muren Sanden and Johannes Farestveit received the first Comics Prize awarded by the Norwegian

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. In 2012 a bronze sculpture of "Smørbukk", made by Trygve Barstad, was unveiled in

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, the home village of illustrator Solveig Muren Sanden.

References

External links

Official website
Norwegian comic strips 1938 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1938 1938 establishments in Norway Fictional Norwegian people Child characters in comics Adventure comics Norwegian comics characters {{comic-strip-stub