Oct 22, 2012
Was Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson inspired by a mid-1900′s Swedish cartoon?
Here’s Homer Simpson (as if you need to be reminded)…
And here’s a clip from a 1949 Icelandic magazine featuring a cartoon character named Adamson, created by Swedish cartoonist Oscar Jacobsson…
Coincidence?
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Jacobsson started writing Adamson comic strips in 1920 and continued until his death in 1945. The strip was continued by the Danish cartoonist Viggo Ludvigsen until 1964.
Here are a few more pics of Adamson (who was known as Silent Sam in America)…
(via Retronaut, Lemurinn, Weird Space)
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Could be those Swedes!
Goes to show – Nothing is new under the sun…
IF the Jacobsson was alive today, Groening might have a lawsuit on his hands.
But, the origina matt groening isn´t like .
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090217204952/uncyclopedia/images/1/13/First-appearance-of-homer-simpson.jpg
And, for the story of a grumpy man … the flintstones, etc, etc.