Joakim Lindengren

Who is Joakim Lindengren?

Joakim Lindengren is a Swedish artist and comic creator. Joakim studied fine arts at Västerås Konstskola, and at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. He made his comic album debut in the early 1980s, and soon became a cult favorite in Sweden due to his crude style and burlesque humor. 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. With his friend and colleague David Nessle, Lindengren has also collaborated on the adolescent humor comic John Holmes & Sherlock Watson.

In later years, Lindengren's humor has become somewhat less adolescent, as he has created the superhero parody Kapten Stofil about an old grumpy hero whose sole "power" is 1950s and 60s nostalgia, usually drawn in a deliberate Silver Age pastiche. The hero had its own comic book in Sweden. Kapten Stofil's alter ego is Joakim himself, who is a huge nostalgia buff in real life, preferring old designs, cars, clothes, gas stations, etc.