Rune Herbert Emanuel Andréasson (11 August 1925 – 15 December 1999) was a Swedish cartoonist and illustrator. Andréasson has created

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since 1944, mainly for the Swedish market, but his works have been published in several languages. He created mostly his own, original characters and features, which included the comic features "Brum", "Lille Rikard och Hans Katt" (Little Rikard and his cat), "Rulle och Maja" (Rulle and Maja), "Nicke Bock" (Nicke goat), "Åsnan Kal" (Kal the donkey), "Nalle Ritar och Berättar" (Nalle draws and tells), "Teddy", "Habibu" and " Pellefant". In the late 40's, he had a few bit parts in movies, most notably in

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Music in Darkness ''Music in Darkness'' ( sv, Musik i mörker), known in the United States as ''Night Is My Future'', is a 1948 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The screenplay was written by Bergman and Dagmar Edqvist, whose novel, ''Music In Darkn ...

''. A later Bergman collaboration was animating a short sequence in ''

Summer Interlude ''Summer Interlude'' ( sv, Sommarlek), originally titled ''Illicit Interlude'' in the United States, is a 1951 Swedish drama film co-written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film opened to highly positive reviews from critics. Plot Marie (Ni ...

''. His most famous creation, however, is "

Bamse ''Bamse – Världens starkaste björn'' () is a Swedish cartoon created by Rune Andréasson. The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short films as well as a weekly half-page Sunday strip in 1966, before b ...

", created in the 1960s, an often educational comic featuring "the world's strongest bear". This feature was highly successful, and was followed by several animated cartoons, as well as a comic book. The comic book started in 1973, featured exclusively Swedish material, and is still one of Sweden's most popular comic books today. In the 1970s, Andréasson began contracting other artists to do the artwork, while he still wrote the stories and kept a strict editorial control of the contents. For example, he refused to publish commercial ads in a magazine aimed at children. He was also rather restrictive with using his creations for commercial merchandising (sans for a few exceptional cases). He retired in 1990, and left his comic to the publishing house

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Family

Andreasson's wife Majvor Lundström who now is the CEO of the Bamseförlaget AB and followed by her Ola and Dan Andreasson who run the company along with her. Majvor and Rune had four children together Dan, Ola, Pål and adopted Viktoria Andreasson. They also have seven grandchildren Anna, Tom, John, Felicia, Moa, Liyah and Lukas Andreasson. Rune Andréasson died 15 December 1999 of

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External links

Information from the Lambiek Comiclopedia of Artists
1925 births 1999 deaths People from Mölndal Municipality Swedish cartoonists Swedish comics artists Deaths from cancer in Sweden {{comics-creator-stub