Jan Berglin is a Swedish

Sweden

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 cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala

Uppsala

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 student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle

Gävle

Gävle is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 71,033 inhabitants in 12/31 2010. It is the oldest city in the historical Norrland , having received its charter in 1446 from Christopher of Bavaria.-History:It is believed that the name Gävle...

 where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion. He published his early strips in the local social democratic newspaper Arbetarbladet

Arbetarbladet

Arbetarbladet is a social democratic newspaper, published in Gävle, Sweden. The first issue was published on March 14, 1902. , the newspaper had a daily edition of 26100. Kennet Lutti is the editor of the newspaper since 1994....

, but became known to a wider audience in 1995, when he started to draw for the Stockholm-based but nationally distributed conservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...

. His strips have been collected and republished in several albums.

Berglin's strips, usually in four panels, tend to find their humour in a sometimes absurd mix of everyday situations and literary and philosophical references or reflections. When he was awarded the Alf Henrikson Prize in 2004, the jury's motivation spoke of his renditions of the "existence of the everyday human between ideals and matter".

In later years Berglin has acknowledged the input of his wife Maria Berglin, an artist and literary critic, within his strips by signing them "Berglins".

Albums

• Samlade serier ("Collected comics") (1992)
• Avanti! - Serier för förryckta (1995)
• Mitt i currykrysset - serier mot sekelslutsleda (1997)
• Andra bullar! (1998)
• Knektöppning - Ess i topp (1999)
• Magnum Berglin: Samlade teckningar 1989-1999 ("Collected drawings 1989-1999") (2001)
• Lagom Berglin (2002)
• Pytte Berglin (2003)
• Berglinska Tider (2004)
• Alla dessa månader med Jan Berglin 2005 (2004)
• Berglin nästa (2006)
• Berglins Tolva ("Berglin's Twelfth") (2007)
• Berglin den trettonde : samlade teckningar av Jan och Maria Berglin ("Berglin the Thirteenth: drawings by Jan and Maria Berglin") (2008)
• Varje dag man inte köper pizza är en seger ("Every day you don't get pizza is a victory") (2009)

External links

• Berglin, comic strip, dynamic page on the website of Swedish daily paper Svenska Dagbladet
  Svenska Dagbladet
  Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...
  
  
• Jan Berglin, some comic strips by berglin