Tony Cronstam

Tony Cronstam (born 6 August 1969, Växjö) is a Swedish cartoonist.

Tony Cronstam in 2013.

An illustrator of role-playing games for Target Games during the 1980s, he made his debut as a cartoonist with the future-based strip Provet (The Test) in Svenska Serier (no. 3/90). In 1990 he began drawing Bamse, and was the principal Bamse artist between 1998-2001. He taught at comic school from 1999-2004.

Together with Maria Cronstam, he created the comic strip Elvis in 2000, for publication in Metro Stockholm. Elvis won the prestigious Adamson Award in 2004.

Since 2018 Cronstam draws Disney comics for the Egmont publishing house.

Bibliography
  • Elvis (2000)
  • Elvis – under skalet (2003)
  • Elvis – bäst i test (2004)
  • Elvis – toastad men inte bränd (2005)
  • Elvis – första boken extra allt (2006)

Further reading

(all in Swedish)

  • Vivvi Toikkanen: ”Elvis en antihjälte med charm”, Metro 2000-10-16.
  • Fredrik Strömberg: ”The king is back! – en intervju med ’Elvis’ skapare Tony Cronstam”, Bild & Bubbla nr 2/2002.
  • Thomas Swedin (red.): ”En dröm för många, verklighet för vissa”, www.bamse.net 2004-03-30.
  • Snorre S Mathiesen: ”Cronstam – under skalet”, www.utivarhage.has.it 2004-11-25.
  • Celia Wilson Stahl: ”’Vi skriver om vår vardag!’”, Hennes nr 12/2005.


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