No sooner had I reported about the upsurge in the US of comics based on novels, then we get similar news here in Sweden. The classic children's book Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang by Barbro Lindgren, a whimsy story of a father and his son which has been loved my generations of Swedish children and their parents, will become comics. The comics are to be published in the new children's comic book Tivoli med vänner (Tivoli and friends), and will be drawn by the artist Sara Olausson, who, as it turns out, is a relative to Barbro Lindgren.
The sample image shown looks beautiful, and in light of what I wrote in the previous blog entry, I hope that the author will let Olausson cut loose and really create her own version of this story.
The full press-release can be found here.
