Ulf Lundkvist
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Ulf Lundkvist is a Swedish
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....

 comic creator, illustrator, and painter. A nostalgia
Nostalgia
The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of , meaning "returning home", a Homeric word, and , meaning "pain, ache"...

 buff in love with the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Lundkvist depicts the "old Sweden" with humor and affection, small towns and countryside, anachronistic places where time seem to stand still.

Lundkvist's most famous comic is probably the strip Assar, the absurd story about a hot dog
Hot dog
A hot dog is a sausage served in a sliced bun. It is very often garnished with mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish and/or sauerkraut.-History:...

who gains sentience and escapes his fate to seek adventure.
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