''Smørbukk'' is a Norwegian

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 ...

. It was started in 1938 by text writer Andreas Haavoll and illustrator Jens R. Nilssen. The first Smørbukk story was based on the fairytale

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collected by

Asbjørnsen and Moe ''Norwegian Folktales'' ( no, Norske folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as ''Asbjørnsen and Moe'', after the collectors. Asbjørnsen and Moe Asbjø ...

. The strip appears in the children's magazine '' Norsk Barneblad'', as well as in separate albums. From 1959/1960 to 1983 the series was illustrated by Solveig Muren Sanden. Later text writers have been Øyvind Dybwad and Johannes Farestveit. From 1983 Håkon Aasnes took over as illustrator. The anniversary book ''Smørbukk 70 år'' was published in 2008.

Legacy

In 1973 Solveig Muren Sanden and Johannes Farestveit received the first Comics Prize awarded by the Norwegian

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. In 2012 a bronze sculpture of "Smørbukk", made by Trygve Barstad, was unveiled in

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, the home village of illustrator Solveig Muren Sanden.

References

External links

Official website
Norwegian comic strips 1938 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1938 1938 establishments in Norway Fictional Norwegian people Child characters in comics Adventure comics Norwegian comics characters {{comic-strip-stub