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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 1977*. Ongoing.

This annual Swedish series is set in the fictional village of Vinkelboda, where we follow the title character and his wife Malin in their daily lives. He is a bone-idle man in his sixties, easily recognizable for his big nose and tall, slender body. He has an aversion to any kind of work and spends a great deal of time trying to wriggle out of such threatening commitments. This also means that he is always broke causing his wife to nag him all the time, often accompanied by his mother-in-law.

* The series started as a newspaper strip in 1927, and was later published in the comic book format by another publisher.

GALLERY (presenting the front covers from 6 random issues).
1977	1984	1992
1996	2003	2013