Jan Berglin
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Jan Berglin is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. Since completion of his studies, Berglin has lived and worked as a secondary school teacher in Gävle and he eventually started to publish his strips in the local social democratic paper Arbetarbladet, but became known to a wider audience from 1995, when he started to be published in the Stockholm-based but nationally distributed conservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. His strips have been collected and republished in album form.
His usually four-panel strips tend to find their humour in a sometimes absurd mix of everyday situations and literary and philosophical references or reflections. When he was given the Alf Henriksson Prize in 2004, the motivation was his rendering of the "existence of the everyday human between ideals and matter".
In later years he has recognized the input of his wife Maria, an artist and literary critic, into the strips by signing them "Berglins".
Albums
- Magnum Berglin: Samlade teckningar 1989-1999 (2001)
- Lagom Berglin (2002)
- Pytte Berglin (2003)
- Berglinska Tider (2004)
- Alla dessa månader med Jan Berglin 2005 (2004)
External links
- Berglin, comic strip (http://www.svd.se/statiskt/serier/serie.asp?serie=berglin), dynamic page on the website of Swedish daily paper Svenska Dagbladet
- Jan Berglin (http://home.swipnet.se/~w-25133/berglin/berglin.htm), personal website