Tony Cronstam (born 6 August 1969,

Växjö Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County ...

) is a

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. An illustrator of

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for

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during the 1980s, he made his debut as a cartoonist with the future-based strip ''Provet'' (''The Test'') in '' Svenska Serier'' (no. 3/90). In 1990, he began drawing ''

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 Comic strip formats#Half page, half-page ...

'', and was the principal ''Bamse'' artist between 1998 and 2001. He taught at comic school from 1999 to 2004. Together with Maria Cronstam, he created the

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,'' in 2000, for publication in '' Metro Stockholm''. ''Elvis'' won the prestigious

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in 2004. Since 2018, Cronstam has drawn

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for the Egmont publishing house.

Bibliography

*''Elvis'' (2000) *''Elvis – under skalet'' (2003) *''Elvis – bäst i test'' (2004) *''Elvis – toastad men inte bränd'' (2005) *''Elvis – första boken extra allt'' (2006)

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Studio Cronstam
1969 births Living people People from Växjö Swedish cartoonists Swedish illustrators {{Europe-comics-creator-stub

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