Bjørn Morisse (7 February 1944 – 27 July 2006) was a Norwegian musician, illustrator and comics creator.

Personal life

Morisse was born in Oslo and was a brother of Tor Morisse. Having spent part of his childhood in the United States, he was educated as illustrator. Bjorn was married to Aud Berggren - mother of his only son Andre born on April 23, 1966, he divorced Aud Berggren in 1972. He then married Penny Sugg (after their divorce she remarried and got Holtzem as surname) in 1974 until 1982. His son Andre lives and works in New York city. Bjørn died in Kristiansand in July 2006.

Career

In 1966 Morisse formed the musical duo The Young Norwegians along with Bjørn Falk Nilsen. They performed at the Dolphin Club in Oslo, and made their television debut in 1966. In 1967 they issued their first album, '' Things On Our Mind''. His humorous

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

''Glåmrik'' was published in the newspaper '' Dagbladet'' from 1972 to 1975 and subsequently issued as a three-volume album series.

References

1944 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Norwegian male singers Comics creators from Oslo Norwegian illustrators {{norway-bio-stub