CREATOR

Name: Semic Press (subsidiary of the worldwide Egmont Group).
Personal dates: Founded in Sweden in 1950 as a comic book subdivision of the publishing company Bonnier AB and has since then changed name several times (the most well known older name is probably Serieförlaget). Sold to Egmont in 1997.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Semic in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation's name is a contraction of Series and Comics. The Semic pages in this site contain  examples from the Swedish and the Norwegian main branches.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1965*. Stopped in 1997 after 33 issues, but was continued by another publisher. Ongoing.

This annual Swedish series is set in Stockholm and follows the life of Fridolf and Selma Olsson. He is a small and stocky, hardworking office manager, while she tends the home. Their marriage seems most often to be a happy one, although he is constantly bullied by his dominating wife.

* The series started as a newspaper strip in 1956, and was from 1960 published in the comic book format by another publisher.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS


Fridolf Olsson, Selma

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues).

1965
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1979

1982
1989
1993

 

 

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