Cirkeline is a fictional comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 character created by Hanne Hastrup in 1957. Her name is sometimes translated to English as Circleen. She is depicted with wild black hair and a red dress with black polka dot

Polka dot

Polka dot is a pattern consisting of an array of filled circles, generally equally sized and spaced relatively closely in relation to their diameters. Polka dots are most commonly seen on children's clothing, toys, and furniture, but they appear in a wide array of contexts...

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Films

Cirkeline appears in the following animated

Animation

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 feature-length films

Feature film

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• Circleen: City Mouse, Cirkeline: Storbyens mus (1998, Denmark)
• Circleen: Mice and Romance, Cirkeline 2: Ost og Kærlighed (2000, Denmark)
• Cirkeline og Verdens mindste superhelt (2004, Denmark)

Stamps

In 2002, Post Danmark (the Danish

Denmark

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 postal service) made four postage stamp

Postage stamp

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 featuring Danish comic book characters. The stamps featured Cirkeline, Valhalla

Valhalla (comic)

Valhalla is a Danish comic book series. Originally commissioned for and published by Interpresse, it has been published by Carlsen Comics since 1987.-History:...

, Rasmus Klump

Rasmus Klump

Rasmus Klump is a comic strip series for small children created in 1951 by the Danish wife and husband team Carla and Vilhelm Hansen...

, and Jungledyret Hugo

Jungledyret Hugo

Jungledyret Hugo is a Danish media franchise featuring the cartoon adventures of an anthropomorphic mammal named Hugo. Created by Danish author and filmmaker Flemming Quist Møller and produced at A...

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