Jan Berglin is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion. He published his early strips in the local social democratic newspaper Arbetarbladet, 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. His strips have been collected and republished in several albums.
Kent was a Swedish alternative rock band, formed in Eskilstuna in 1990. With members Joakim Berg, Martin Sköld, Sami Sirviö and Markus Mustonen, the band had numerous radio hits throughout Sweden and Scandinavia and consecutive number-one studio albums on the Sweden top list (Sverigetopplistan) beginning with the release of Verkligen (1996) and led by the single "Kräm ". With origins rooted in distorted rock, they found mainstream success through their alternative rock albums of the mid-1990s, 2000s and 2010s, the latter decades during which they adopted elements of synthpop. With eleven number-one albums, five number-one singles, 23 Swedish Grammy Awards, and over three million record sales, Kent is considered the most popular rock/pop group within Sweden and throughout Scandinavia. Vapen & ammunition (2002) topped the Swedish charts for eight weeks. Kent is often compared to bands like U2 and Coldplay.
The Grand Duchy of Finland, also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed between 1809 and 1917 as an autonomous state ruled by the former Russian Empire.
The Anjala conspiracy of 1788 was a scheme by disgruntled Swedish officers to end Gustav III's Russian War of 1788–1790. Declaring Finland an independent state was not a part of the original plot, but one of the conspirators Johan Anders Jägerhorn, who handed the note to Empress Catherine the Great, made such claims in Saint Petersburg.
Max Andersson is a Swedish comic creator and film maker, mostly doing "underground style" and "artistic" comics. His comics have mainly been published in Swedish albums, and in the Swedish art magazine Galago.
Jan Lööf is a Swedish illustrator, author, comic creator, and jazz musician.
Joakim Lindengren is a Swedish cartoonist, illustrator and artist.
David Nessle is a Swedish comic creator, known for his semi-philosophical comics such as Döden Steker En Flamingo, as well as adolescent humor funnies like John Holmes & Sherlock Watson. He has been published in magazines such as Galago, Mega-Pyton and Kapten Stofil, and in several comic albums. David was for many years active in the Swedish Science fiction fandom and the creator of several fanzines. He was also the founder and front figure of the Sala-based band "Geggamoja Übermench och det heterosexuella närstridskommandot".
Herbert Joakim "Jocke" Berg is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of Swedish rock band Kent.
Adamson Awards is a Swedish award awarded to notable cartoonists, named after the famous Swedish comic strip "Adamson". There are two award categories: International and Swedish cartoonist.
Urhunden Prizes have been given out each year by the Swedish Comics Association since 1987. There are three categories: Best Swedish (Domestic) Album of the Year (1987–2005), Best Foreign Album of the Year (1987–2005), and the "Unghunden" for best children and youth comics (1994–2005).
Kalle Anka & C:o is a Swedish weekly Disney comics magazine, published by Egmont. The 52-page comic, launched in September 1948, is the overall best-selling Swedish comic magazine. In the early years, the comic printed translated stories from the United States, including Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Four Color and other Dell Comics Disney titles. As Disney comics production waned in the United States in the 1960s, Kalle Anka began printing more European-produced content, from Scandinavia and Italy. Now, Kalle Anka & C:o and its Scandinavian sister editions Anders And & Co. (Denmark) and Donald Duck & Co (Norway) are identical, apart from the language.
FilmTecknarna is a Swedish animation studio formed by Jonas Odell, Lars Ohlson, Stig Bergkvist, and Martti Ekstrand in 1981.
Conny Nimmersjö is a Swedish musician most known for playing guitar with bob hund and Bergman Rock.
Sami Sirviö is a Sweden Finnish musician and former lead guitarist of the now discontinued Swedish rock band Kent.
Juha Pirinen is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or a centre-back for Greek Super League 2 club Levadiakos.
Conny is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Joakim "Jocke" Brodén is a Swedish musician who is the lead vocalist, keyboardist and occasional third guitarist of the power metal band Sabaton. He and bassist Pär Sundström formed the band in 1999.
Liv Strömquist is a Swedish comics artist and radio presenter.
Pirinen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
