Joakim Lindengren
Joakim Lindengren is a Swedish cartoonist, illustrator and artist.Career
Lindengren studied fine arts at Västerås Konstskola under Tore Hultcrantz, and at Konstfack, Stockholm. He made his comic album debut in the early 1980s, and soon became a cult favorite in Sweden due to his crude style, burlesque humour, and satirical commentaries on Swedish celebrities. He has been published in magazines such as Galago, Pyton and Mega-Pyton and has created more than a dozen comic albums on his own during the last twenty years. David Nessle and Lindengren collaborated on John Holmes & Sherlock Watson.
Lindengren's created the superhero parody Kapten Stofil about an old grumpy hero whose sole "power" is 1950s and 60s nostalgia, drawn in a Silver Age pastiche. The hero had its own comic book in Sweden. Kapten Stofil's alter ego is Joakim himself, who is a nostalgia buff in real life, preferring old designs, cars, clothes, gas stations, etc.
Lindengren collaborated with Latin American novelist Giannina Braschi on the comic book "United States of Banana" in which characters Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina liberate Segismundo from the dungeon of the Statue of Liberty; the work is a political allegory on the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.
Joakim Lindengren was also a co-founder of Svenska Småbil- och Rusdrycksförbundet, a club devoted to toy cars and alcohol.
