Hugleikur Dagsson

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Þórarinn Hugleikur Dagsson, born October 5, 1977 is an Icelandic artist. He was a film critic in a popular Icelandic radio program on radio channel Radíó X and hosted another program called Hugleikur on the same channel. Dagsson is known for all kinds of visual art and video works. He is most famous for his extremely satirical comics filled with black humor, which have been published in books and in the Iceland The Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine. Dagsson has written two stage plays. The first Forðist okkur (Avoid us) is based on one of his books. It's a story about three disfunctional families. The second, Leg (Uterus) is a musical about teenage pregnancy in the near future of Iceland. Both plays got raving reviews and Dagsson got "the playwright of the year" award for Forðist okkur. In 2006 Penguin books published Should you be laughing at this, which is a collection of cartoons previously published as Forðist okkur (Avoid us) by JPV books in Iceland.

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• Stage plays
  • Leg (English: Uterus, the musical)
  • Forðist okkur (English: Avoid Us)

• Comic books
  • Elskið okkur (English: Love Us)
  • Drepið okkur (English: Kill Us)
  • Ríðið okkur (English: Fuck Us)
  • Forðist okkur (English: Avoid Us). A collection containing, Love, Kill and Fuck Us
  • Bjargið okkur (English: Save Us)
  • Should you be laughing at this? The english translation of Forðist okkur, pubished by Penguin books
  • Fylgið okkur (English: Follow Us)
  • Eineygði kötturinn Kisi og hnakkarnir (English: Kisi, the one-eyed cat, and the backheads)