Lars Hillersberg (1937–2004) was a political
Swedish
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artist,
cartoonist, caricaturist and comics artist who often caused controversy.
Hillersberg was born in
Flen
Flen (local pronunciation ''Flén'') is a locality and the seat of Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 6,229 inhabitants in 2010.
Flen evolved as a railway junction and got the title of a city in 1949. Since 1971 it is the seat o ...
. He studied at the Stockholm Art Academy in 1961–1966. In 1968, he founded the satirical magazine ''
PUSS'' together with, among others,
Carl Johan De Geer and
Lena Svedberg.
For over 35 years, Hillersberg continued to create political cartoons, comics, and other artwork heckling the Swedish society.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hillersberg drew some controversial
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
-critical caricatures, which caused some debate about whether they were
antisemitic or not. Hillersberg himself thought that those debates were pure idiocy and he explicitly stated that he was not an antisemite.
Hillersberg died in 2004. During his last years, he lived and worked in
Gnesta outside
Stockholm.
Sources
External links
Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
1937 births
2004 deaths
People from Flen Municipality
Swedish editorial cartoonists
Swedish caricaturists
Swedish satirists
Swedish comics artists
Race-related controversies in comics
Controversies in Sweden
Swedish magazine founders
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