Marie-Louise Ekman
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Marie-Louise Ekman created the series Arty Stiffneck for Aftonbladet in 1994 and the idea was to take up eternal subjects like identity, communication and the fear of not fitting in. In this book you can read all 13 parts about Arty Stiffneck's life, some of which have never been published. Foreword by Joakim Pirinen. Published by Kaunitz-Olsson 2019.

Marie-Louise Ekman (b. 1944) has been a prominent figure in Swedish cultural life since the debut in 1967. She has worked with various techniques, media and genres, but everything that usually stayed in the border country between cartoon series and classical painting where she found her own visual world.