Mads Eriksen
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| Mads Eriksen | |
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| Born | July 15, 1977 Malvik, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Area(s) | cartoonist |
| Notable works | Gnom M |
| Awards | full list |
Mads Eriksen (born July 15, 1977) is a Norwegian cartoonist, best known for the comic strips M and Gnom. He was born in Malvik, a municipality east of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag.
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[edit] Biography
Eriksen's career in comics began in 2000, when his first comic strip, Gnom, was accepted into Smult, a magazine dedicated to promoting promising Norwegian cartoonists. Gnom quickly became popular but when Bladkompaniet ceased publication of Smult, Eriksen abandoned Gnom and began his new series, M as a guest strip in the monthly magazine Pondus. The initial of Mads, M is a semi-auto-biographical, surrealistic strip featuring himself and his girlfriend, "Madammen" (English: The Madam). In 2002, M began daily publication in Dagbladet, initially on a "guest" basis, until the strip became a permanent fixture, causing Hägar the Horrible to be removed from the newspaper's comics section.[1][2]
In 2005 Bladkompaniet published an album containing the complete Gnom, and M got its own own dedicated magazine in December 2006 when Schibstedforlagene published the first M magazine, with a new issue once a month.[3] M strips are published six times a week, Monday through Saturday, in the newspapers Dagbladet and Adresseavisen, and subsequently appear on the internet portal start.no.
Mads Eriksen currently lives in Trondheim. A self-declared geek, he is a big fan of several popular cultural phenomena, especially Star Wars.
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[edit] Sources
- M albums M book, M magazine Schibsted (Norwegian)
- Footnotes
- ^ a b Harper, Morten. Tegneserier.no (November 4, 2004). Mads Eriksen skviser Hårek (Norwegian).
- ^ a b Larsen, Mona. Dagsavisen (October 3, 2007). Hverdagsliv i striper (Norwegian).
- ^ Hellesund, Kristian. Serienett (October 28, 2006). M får eget hefte (Norwegian).
