Joakim Lindengren
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Joakim Lindengren is a Swedish
artist and comic creator. Joakim studied fine arts at Västerås
Konstskola (Art School), and at Konstfack
(University College of Arts, Crafts and Design), Stockholm, Sweden. He made his comic album debut in the early 1980s, and soon became a cult favorite in Sweden due to his crude style and burlesque
humor (often making jokes about Swedish celebrities and various bodily fluids). He has been published in magazines such as Galago, Pyton
and Mega-Pyton and has created more than a dozen comic albums on his own during the last twenty years. With his friend and colleague David Nessle
, Lindengren has also collaborated on the adolescent humor comic John Holmes & Sherlock Watson.
In later years, Lindengren's humor has become somewhat less adolescent, as he has created the superhero parody Kapten Stofil (Captain Fogy, although translated as Captain Geezer in the comic) about an old grumpy hero whose sole "power" is 1950s and 60s nostalgia, usually drawn in a deliberate Silver Age
pastiche
. The hero had its own comic book in Sweden. Kapten Stofil's alter ego is Joakim himself, who is a huge nostalgia buff in real life, preferring old designs, cars, clothes, gas stations, etc.
Joakim Lindengren was also a co-founder of Svenska Småbil- och Rusdrycksförbundet, a club devoted to small toy cars and alcohol.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
artist and comic creator. Joakim studied fine arts at Västerås
Västerås
Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 km west of Stockholm...
Konstskola (Art School), and at Konstfack
Konstfack
Konstfack or University College of Arts, Crafts and Design is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.- History :...
(University College of Arts, Crafts and Design), Stockholm, Sweden. He made his comic album debut in the early 1980s, and soon became a cult favorite in Sweden due to his crude style and burlesque
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
humor (often making jokes about Swedish celebrities and various bodily fluids). He has been published in magazines such as Galago, Pyton
Pyton
Pyton was a Norwegian comic book series which was produced by the company Gevion, and afterwards Bladkompaniet, between the years 1986 until 1996...
and Mega-Pyton and has created more than a dozen comic albums on his own during the last twenty years. With his friend and colleague David Nessle
David Nessle
David Nessle is a Swedish comic creator, known for his semi-philosophical comics such as Döden Steker En Flamingo, as well as adolescent humor funnies like John Holmes & Sherlock Watson . He has been published in magazines such as Galago, Mega-Pyton and Kapten Stofil, and in several comic albums...
, Lindengren has also collaborated on the adolescent humor comic John Holmes & Sherlock Watson.
In later years, Lindengren's humor has become somewhat less adolescent, as he has created the superhero parody Kapten Stofil (Captain Fogy, although translated as Captain Geezer in the comic) about an old grumpy hero whose sole "power" is 1950s and 60s nostalgia, usually drawn in a deliberate Silver Age
Silver Age of Comic Books
The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
pastiche
Pastiche
A pastiche is a literary or other artistic genre or technique that is a "hodge-podge" or imitation. The word is also a linguistic term used to describe an early stage in the development of a pidgin language.-Hodge-podge:...
. The hero had its own comic book in Sweden. Kapten Stofil's alter ego is Joakim himself, who is a huge nostalgia buff in real life, preferring old designs, cars, clothes, gas stations, etc.
Joakim Lindengren was also a co-founder of Svenska Småbil- och Rusdrycksförbundet, a club devoted to small toy cars and alcohol.
External links
- Optimal Press' Joakim Lindengren page (in Swedish)
- Galago (in Swedish)