Håkon Aasnes (born 13 February 1943) is a Norwegian

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creator, illustrator and

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Biography

Aasnes was born in

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on 13 February 1943. He made his series debut in 1972, with the comic strip ''Seidel og Tobram'', and became a full-time professional illustrator ten years later. In the 1970s, he wrote and illustrated several stories for the magazine '. He drew the Disney characters licensed for Norway from 1976 to 1979, or intermittently until 1993. Aasnes was also the first Norwegian to draw for Disney, and whose own drawings, stories, and scenarios based on his own ideas received official publication by Disney. From 1983 he has written and illustrated the

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'', and from 2005 also the comic strip '. He has created several comics series, including ''Seidel og Tobram'', ''Vi på Eiketun'', ''Annika'', ''Gråtass'' and ''Olsenbanden''. As of January 2020, he has contributed to 440 cartoons according to the records o
Mineregneserie.no
a cartoon indexing site.

Awards

* 1981: Kulturdepartementets for barne- og ungdomslitteratur pris (Norwegian cultural department's prize for children and youth literature) ** Awarded for this comic ''Fra skolebenk til gårdsarbeid'' (From school bench to yard work) * 2016: The

Sproing Award The Sproing Award is awarded by Norsk Tegneserieforum (NTF), an organisation to promote interest and understanding for comics in Norway. Since 1987, the award has been presented for the ''Best Norwegian Strips'', a comic strip or comic book by a No ...

References

Norwegian comics writers Norwegian comics artists 20th-century Norwegian illustrators 21st-century Norwegian illustrators Norwegian magazine illustrators Disney comics artists Disney comics writers Norwegian humorists 1943 births Living people Comics creators from Oslo {{norway-writer-stub