CREATOR

Name: Semic Press (subsidiary of the worldwide Egmont Group).
Personal dates: Founded in Sweden in 1950 as a comic book subdivision of the publishing company Bonnier AB and has since then changed name several times (the most well known older name is probably Serieförlaget). Sold to Egmont in 1997.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Semic in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation's name is a contraction of Series and Comics. The Semic pages in this site contain  examples from the Swedish and the Norwegian main branches.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1960*. Ongoing.

This annual Swedish series describes some sort of hillbilly life in a small community with Efraim Erik Nilsson, called Åsa-Nisse (meaning Ridge-Nils in English (the special Scandinavian letter Å stands for Aa)), as the dominating character. Basically he is a smalltime farmer but he prefers to spend his time poaching or lazying around with his friends. Åsa-Nisse's primary objectives are to stay clear of the law - and his nagging wife Eulalia.

* The comic book series started in 1955, and has spawned many issues and editions over the years. The examples on this page focus on a few of the annual Christmas albums published by Semic beginning in 1975.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER


Åsa-Nisse

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues).

1975
1979
1984

1988
1992
1996

 

 

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