Jan Romare (3 January 1936 – 31 August 2017) was a Swedish diplomat and cartoonist.

Biography

Romare sold his first cartoon, ''Igelkotten Hubert'' ("Hubert the Hedgehog") to the magazine ''

Folket i Bild ''Folket i Bild/Kulturfront'' (meaning ''Images of the People/Culture Front'' in English) is a Swedish magazine for reports, art, literature, debate and culture. It is published by the organization of the same name. The magazine is based in Stockh ...

'' in 1953, when he was seventeen years old. He created a few other cartoons for ''Folket i Bild'' and the teenage magazine ''Fickjournalen'' during the 1950s. Having finished his

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

, he began working for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and received his first foreign posting at the Swedish embassy in Paris in 1963. During his time as a diplomat he had several postings and served as the head of the Swedish delegation to the

UNCHR The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of t ...

. In 1987, Romare's comic strip ''Pyton'', about a man and his python snake, premiered in the daily newspaper '' Dagens Nyheter''. This was Romare's breakthrough as a cartoonist. It was followed by the comic strip ''Himlens änglar'' (''Heaven's Angels''), a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of life after death. In 1991, Romare took a leave of absence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to focus on his drawing and when he retired in 1998 he began working as a cartoonist on a full-time basis. Romare received the

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 ti ...

for Best Swedish Comic-Strip Cartoonist in 1996. His cartoons have been collected in a number of albums.

References

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