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Silent Sam (comics)
''Silent Sam'' (''Adamson'') is a Swedish pantomime comic, created by Oscar Jacobsson (1889–1945) in 1920. It has also been published under the name ''Adamson's Adventures''. Description Adamson is a silent, grumpy looking, cigar-smoking man with an odd high hat. The strip originally appeared in the Swedish humor publication ''Söndags-Nisse'', where it debuted on October 17, 1920. Adamson is an almost pure pantomime comic, and he spoke extremely rarely and instead expressed himself with mimic and gestures. The fact that he almost never uttered a word, was one of the benefits of the comic, making it feasible internationally. It soon became very popular and was published in hundreds of newspapers all over the world, not only in Sweden but also in the rest of Europe, the US, China and Japan. Oscar Jacobsson was resident in the United States for eight months in 1922 and during the long visit sold the series for syndication to the PIB syndicate PIB may refer for: Music * "Plug ...
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Pantomime Comics
Silent comics (or pantomime comics) are comics which are delivered in mime. They make use of little or no dialogue, speech balloons or captions written underneath the images. Instead, the stories or gags are told entirely through pictures. Definition Silent comics have the advantage of being easily understandable to people - like children - who are slow readers. The genre is also universally popular since translation is not required, lacking the usual language barriers. Sergio Aragonés, a famous artist in the field, once said in a 1991 interview with Comics Journal: "What happens is like a supersimplification. Something you can say with words, you have to eliminate all the words until it can be told in a little story without words. You just think a little longer. But it becomes rewarding in the end because everybody can understand your cartoons no matter what your nationality. And that, to me, has been always a big thing—to do cartoons that everybody can understand, every age, ev ...
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Adamson Award
Adamson Awards is a Swedish award awarded to notable cartoonists, named after the famous Swedish comic strip "Adamson" (Silent Sam). They have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) since 1965. There have been years in that time when neither award or only one of the two awards was presented. Best International Comic-Strip r comic bookCartoonist *1965 – Chester Gould, USA; '' Dick Tracy'' *1966 – Harvey Kurtzman, USA; ''Djungelboken''; skapare av ''Mad'' (''The Jungle Book''; creator of '' Mad'') *1967 – Charles M. Schulz, USA; ''Snobben'' (''Peanuts'') *1968 – Jean-Claude Forest, France; '' Barbarella'' *1969 – Harold R. Foster, USA; ''Prins Valiant'' (''Prince Valiant'') *1970 – Robert Crumb, USA; ''Fritz the Cat'', etc. *1971 – Hergé (Georges Remi), Belgium; ''The Adventures of Tintin'' *1972 – Guido Crepax, Italy; '' Valentina'', etc. *1974 – René Goscinny, France; ''Asterix'', ''Lucky Luke'', etc. *1975 – Mort Walker, USA; "Knasen" (' ...
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Fictional Swedish People
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and conte ...
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1964 Comics Endings
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1920 Comics Debuts
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Pantomime Comics
Silent comics (or pantomime comics) are comics which are delivered in mime. They make use of little or no dialogue, speech balloons or captions written underneath the images. Instead, the stories or gags are told entirely through pictures. Definition Silent comics have the advantage of being easily understandable to people - like children - who are slow readers. The genre is also universally popular since translation is not required, lacking the usual language barriers. Sergio Aragonés, a famous artist in the field, once said in a 1991 interview with Comics Journal: "What happens is like a supersimplification. Something you can say with words, you have to eliminate all the words until it can be told in a little story without words. You just think a little longer. But it becomes rewarding in the end because everybody can understand your cartoons no matter what your nationality. And that, to me, has been always a big thing—to do cartoons that everybody can understand, every age, ev ...
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Gag-a-day Comics
A gag-a-day comic strip is the style of writing comic cartoons such that every installment of a strip delivers a complete joke or some other kind of artistic statement. It is opposed to story or continuity strips, which rely on the development of a story line across a sequence of the installments. Most syndicated comics are of this type.''The Art of Cartooning & Illustration'', 2014, p.98/ref> Another term for this distinction is non-serial (gag-a-day) vs. serial strips. Compared to single-panel cartoons ("gag panels"), gag-a-day comic strips can deliver a better timing for the narrative of a joke. The distinction between continuity and gag-a-day strip may be blurred: a continuous story may still be delivered in the gag-a-day format. In fact, Lynn Johnston Lynn Johnston (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist and author, best known for her newspaper comic strip '' For Better or For Worse''. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Soci ...
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Swedish Comic Strips
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Svenska Serieakademien
Svenska Serieakademin ("The Swedish Academy of Comics") is a Swedish organisation founded in 1965 by the journalist Sture Hegerfors, who has been its president from the start. The academy is based on the structure of the Swedish Academy and has 18 members, just like its prototype, but is aimed at the art of comics. Among the members are Lasse Ã…berg. The academy awards the Adamson statuette every year to one international and one Swedish comics creator. The statuette is named for the comic strip ''Adamson'', in English known as Silent Sam or Adamson's Adventures. See also * Adamson Awards Adamson Awards is a Swedish award awarded to notable cartoonists, named after the famous Swedish comic strip "Adamson" (Silent Sam). They have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) since 1965. There have been years in that ti ... References Comics-related organizations Cultural organizations based in Sweden Swedish comics {{sweden-org-stub ...
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Oscar Jacobsson
Oscar Jacobsson (Göteborg, 1889 – Solberga, December 25, 1945) was a Swedish comic creator and cartoonist who started his career in 1918, when his first newspaper illustration was published. Jacobsson's first illustrations were published in Naggen. In 1920, he created the comic strip '' Adamson'' for the publication ''Söndags-Nisse''. Adamson himself was a (usually) silent little cigar-smoking man with a big hat and frequent misadventures. The strip soon became very popular and became published in hundreds of newspapers all over the world. In the United States, it became known as "Silent Sam". Jacobsson also worked for other publications. His illustrations frequently appeared in magazines and papers like Exlex, Dagens Nyheter and Lutfisken. Near the end of his stellar career, Jacobsson created another comic character: Abu Fakir. This was published in Vi. Keeping Adamson Alive 'Adamson' outlived his creator; the Danish artist Viggo Ludvigsen continued the comic strip for n ...
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Viggo Ludvigsen
Viggo, also spelled Wiggo, is a Nordic male name. There are two main theories about its origins: * a latinised form of the Old Norse name Vigge, which is also found in the form of other Germanic names, such as Ludvig. It stems from old Norse 'vig', meaning "battle, fight". * a variant of the Icelandic name Vöggur, coming from old Norse 'vöggr', "one who lies in a cradle". People named Viggo include: * Viggo Bielefeldt (1851–1909), Danish composer *Viggo Brøndal (1887–1942), Danish philologist, professor of Romance languages and literature * Viggo Brodersen (1879–1965), Danish composer and pianist *Viggo Brun (1885–1978), Norwegian mathematician * Viggo Christensen(1880–1967), the first Lord Mayor of Copenhagen * Viggo Dibbern (1900–1981), Danish gymnast and Olympic medalist *Viggo Fausböll (1821–1908), Danish translator and Indologist *Viggo Frederiksen (1916–1993), Danish boxer and Olympic competitor *Viggo Hagstrøm (1954–2013), Norwegian legal scholar a ...
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Jeff Hayes
Jeffrey Clyde Hayes (born August 19, 1959) is a former American football punter in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals, and the Miami Dolphins. He played in Super Bowl XVII and XVIII for the Washington Redskins. Hayes played college football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hayes made 274 punts in the NFL, with a longest punt of 59 yards in 1984 game, a total of 10,471 yards with a career average of 38.2 yards per punt. He scored one touchdown, running for a 61 yard touchdown while playing for the Bengals against the Pittsburgh Steelers via a fake punt where he evaded two tackles. While playing for Washington, he made four rushing attempts that included a 24 yard run in 1984 following a 48 yard run in 1983. He finished his career with 168 rushing yards from 7 attempts. His 61 yard run is the longest touchdown run for a kicker or punter, and was the longest run for those positions until Reggie Hodges's 68 yard, ...
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