Tony Cronstam

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Tony Cronstam (born 6 August 1969, Växjö) is a Swedish cartoonist.

An illustrator of role-playing games for Target Games during the 1980's, he made his debut as a cartoonist with the future-based strip Provet (The Test) in Svenska Serier (no. 3/90). In 1990 he began drawing Bamse, and was the principal Bamse artist between 1998-2001. He taught at comic school from 1999-2004.

Together with Maria Cronstam, he created the comic strip Elvis in 2000, for publication in Metro Stockholm. Elvis won the prestigious Adamson Award in 2004.

[edit] Bibliography

Elvis (2000)
Elvis – under skalet (2003)
Elvis – bäst i test (2004)
Elvis – toastad men inte bränd (2005)
Elvis – första boken extra allt (2006)

[edit] Further reading

(all in Swedish)

Vivvi Toikkanen: ”Elvis en antihjälte med charm”, Metro 2000-10-16.
Fredrik Strömberg: ”The king is back! – en intervju med ’Elvis’ skapare Tony Cronstam”, Bild & Bubbla nr 2/2002.
Thomas Swedin (red.): ”En dröm för många, verklighet för vissa”, www.bamse.net 2004-03-30.
Snorre S Mathiesen: ”Cronstam – under skalet”, www.utivarhage.has.it 2004-11-25.
Celia Wilson Stahl: ”’Vi skriver om vår vardag!’”, Hennes nr 12/2005.