Characters In Pondus
The cartoon strip ''Pondus'' by Frode Øverli has a number of major and minor recurring characters. Pondus' family Pondus Pondus (real name Patrick) is a living football encyclopedia in his mid thirties (once quoted to be 35), and an avid fan of Liverpool F.C. and AC/DC (he claims his favorite song is ''Shoot to thrill''). He is married to Beate, and father to their two children, Påsan and Sneipen. He actively plays football at "old-boys" level, giving him opportunity to play hard and occasionally perform like the player he dreams he is. He has both seriously injured others, and been seriously injured himself. When it comes to knowledge about British football, he has nearly idiot savant expertise, about teams and players down to the obscure Lower Leagues. He worked for several years as a bus driver, but did at one point get too much exposure to "the freaks that use public transportation", and as pub-owner Turid-Laila was leaving for a transglobal sailing trip, Pondus quit ...
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Pondus
''Pondus'' is a comic strip created by the Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli. Since its start in 1995, it has become one of the most successful comic strips in Scandinavia. It has been translated to several languages, including Danish, English, German, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Latin, Sami, Swedish and Esperanto. In 2000 it inspired its own magazine. Publication history Øverli initially developed a strip titled ''A-laget'' (A-team) in 1995, prior to leaving the magazine ''Pyton''. This early version focused on three characters who were fanatical football- supporters. By the time the strip in its earliest form was first published in a small local newspaper ''Vest-Nytt'' of Sotra on October 28, 1995, it had taken the name ''Pondus''.pdf
In 1996 it began a four-year run as a suppor ...
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