Rocky (comic strip)
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Author(s) | Martin Kellerman |
Website | http://www.rocky-digital.com/ Official website |
Launch date | 1998 |
Genre(s) | Humour |
Rocky is a Swedish autobiographical comic strip created by Martin Kellerman, focusing on an anthropomorphic dog, Rocky, and his friends in their everyday life in Stockholm.
Overview
Rocky is based on Kellerman's own life.[1] According to Kellerman, "My friends are just such perfect cartoon characters. A lot of times they say things and all I have to do is write it down. Their personalities match and complement each other so well, it's impossible not to write it down. If I wait a while, even the upsetting stuff they can still laugh about."[2]
Some of the humor draws from
The comic has been translated to Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Serbian, English, Spanish, and French, either as a running strip or collected in book form.
History
Kellerman created Rocky after his girlfriend broke up with him and he was fired from his job as a cartoonist for a
The strips have been collected in several books, first one published in 1999.
References
- ^ "International Journal of Comic Art". 5. University of Michigan. 2003: 90.
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(help) - ^ a b c d MacDonald, Heidi (6 December 2005). "Martin Kellerman: It's a Dog's Life in Sweden". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 10 June 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ a b c Kellerman, Martin. "Biography". Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ISBN 978-1-56097-679-0.
- ISBN 978-1-56097-852-7.
- ^ "ROCKY – kortfilmssamling!". Kartago. Retrieved 9 July 2009.