Ulf Lundkvist

Ulf Lundkvist (* 1952) is a Swedish artist, draftsman and painter.

Ulf Lundkvist portrays the hidden and forgotten pages of his native country Sweden, of the rural poor of the 18th century over disused railway stations and petrol pumps dry to the motorway junctions and shopping malls of today. His main fascination applies the 1940s to 1960s, in his works, time stands still.

Lundkvist works with various means of graphic design, but is mainly known for his comic series. Lundkvist's drawing style is sloppy - spidery, with the incorporation of ink stains, thumbprints and the like. Many of his works were published in the magazine Galago and in book form in Tago Förlag.

Lundkvist is known to a wider audience with his series Assar, which is daily since 1990, published in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily newspaper.

Assar

Assar is a cooked sausage, is fleeing from the safe end in a suburban sausage stand and builds a new life in the backwater Noll Berga. There Assar occurs mainly as a narrator and a critical observer who presents the whole spectrum of anachronistic population and the bizarre events portrays.

Tyrone is the village Depp, who endures the ridicule of all stoic. No one knows that he has sworn to Kohlrabieid at his parents' grave and now is Noll Berga protector Bimbo. When the bullied evil through and through Razor the village, Tyrone slips into his Bimbo costume and takes the hunt. Razor, the hairy and rough forever cursing nature, must travel with a punishment with Rymd - Börje in the rocket and around the clock with Börje Black Peter play.

Noll Berga is a kingdom. King Royne is closer to the people ruler who was at times married to Pamela Anderson.

The biggest villain Noll Berga is Baron bosses. He has already brought much evil upon the district, starting with the introduction of " Botong " as all-round fabric (building material, food, clothing material, etc.) on the import of vampires who visit Noll Berga as a tourist with an appetite, to the construction a harbor district, in which hang around dubious characters. In the end, has to be evacuated by the topsoil is planed off and rolled in tow behind Rymd - Börjes rocket is transported to the moon quite Noll Berga. There henceforth the story takes Noll Berga on - but under a giant bell jar.

Other prominent personalities Noll Berga are the beautiful flora Andersson, daughter of the merchant; Elof Öman, media magnate; Viggo Filtner, cult leader ( Viggo has at times represented the king, took the title of king but only serve from the Euro Vision Festival to win ); Explorer Johansson, Fisk - Gunnar, the Warnuts that Bautastenarna, in addition to various speaking chanterelles, the look down with contempt on the Noll Berga population.

Works, selection

Awards

  • Cartoonist
  • Illustrator
  • Literature (Swedish)
  • Swede
  • Born in 1952
  • Man
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