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Fredrik Strömberg - Oscar Jacobsson, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Oscar Jacobsson

Av Fredrik Strömberg

Del i serien Biographix

229 kr

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The recluse Swedish artist Oscar Jacobsson (1889–1945) created Adamson, a surly, obstinate little man with three strands of hair on his otherwise bald head and a smoldering cigar ever present in the corner of his mouth. This unexpected hero would go on to conquer the globe, as his exploits were published all over the world during the first half of the twentieth century. As part of the Biographix series edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oscar Jacobsson reintroduces scholars and comics readers to this groundbreaking artist. Oscar Jacobsson started out as a cartoonist for caricature journals in the early nineteenth century and was asked by one editor to create a comic strip. The result, Adamson, soon started its journey around the world, with Jacobsson being invited to the US to create strips directly for the American market. Jacobsson didn’t like the fast-paced American life and soon returned to his beloved Sweden, but his character kept travelling the globe, being published all over Europe and the Americas as well as in China and Japan, becoming one of the biggest international comic strips of its time. This volume tells the story of Oscar Jacobsson’s artistic journey, analyzing the development of the Adamson strip throughout the twenty-five years he created it, but also examines how ghost artists in different parts of the world attempted to re-create the magic that made the strip so popular. Additionally, the book contains a visual geneaology of Adamson, revealing how artists such as Hergé and Osamu Tezuka seem to have been influenced by Adamson.
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Fredrik Strömberg is a Swedish researcher, journalist, and author, as well as chief editor of Bild & Bubbla, the world’s second-oldest magazine about comics, and president of the Comics Archive in Malmö. Among the books he has written are the English-language Swedish Comics History, Black Images in the Comics, The Comics Go to Hell, Jewish Images in the Comics, and Comic Art Propaganda. Strömberg's thesis, Comics and the Middle East—Representation, Accommodation, Integration, was defended at Malmö University in 2022.

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"Fredrik Strömberg sheds light on the life and work of Oscar Jacobsson and on his most famous creation, Adamson. This valuable contribution to the global history of comics demonstrates the importance and staggering global popularity of Adamson during the early twentieth century, as well as its relative obscurity in contemporary scholarship. Oscar Jacobsson flows well and is of interest to people studying the history of comics, but also to more casual readers." - Nicolas Labarre, author of Moebius"A rehabilitation of a nowadays largely forgotten Swedish artist, but who was one of the most influential comics artists worldwide from the 1920s till the 1950s. It’s an extremely interesting case of how a successful European comic travelled to many other countries. No one has yet analyzed in such detail all the variations of the Adamson series or has given such an extensive overview of publications worldwide." - Pascal Lefèvre, comics historian and theorist

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