Svenska Serieakademin ("The Swedish Academy of Comics") is a Swedish organisation founded in 1965 by the journalist

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, who has been its president from the start. The academy is based on the structure of the

Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy ( sv, Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III of Sweden, Gustav III, is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish lang ...

and has 18 members, just like its prototype, but is aimed at the art of

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

. Among the members are

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. The academy awards the Adamson statuette every year to one international and one Swedish comics creator. The statuette is named for the comic strip ''Adamson'', in English known as

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or Adamson's Adventures.

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