Joakim Lindengren

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Joakim Lindengren (born March 28, 1962) is a Swedish comic creator. He made his album debut in the 1980s and soon became a cult favorite in Sweden due to his crude style and burlesque humor (more often than not making jokes about Swedish celebrities and various bodily fluids). He has been published in magazines such as Galago, Pyton, and Mega-Pyton and has produced more than a dozen comic albums on his own during the last twenty years. With his friend and colleague David Nessle, Lindengren has also collaborated on the adolescent humor comic John Holmes & Sherlock Watson.

In later years, Lindengren's humor has become somewhat less adolescent, as he has created the superhero parody Kapten Stofil about an old grumpy hero whose sole "power" is 1950s and 60s nostalgia. The hero has got his own comic book in Sweden.

Kapten Stofil's alter ego is Joakim Lindengren himself, who is a huge nostalgia buff in real life as well, preferring old designs, cars, clothes, gas stations, and so on.

Joakim Lindengren was also a co-founder of Svenska Småbil- och Rusdrycksförbundet, a club devoted to toy cars and alcohol.