Strange but true: There is at least one manufacturer in the world still making merchandise with the Swedish comics character Adamson/Silent Sam, even though the heyday of the strip was some 70-80 years ago. This little beauty, which arrived to the Stromberg mansion today, was produced in 2014, and not in Sweden…

Fredrik Strömberg is a journalist, author and historian, who has studied comics since the early 1990’s. He is one of the editors of Bild & Bubbla, Scandinavia’s largest as well as the world’s second oldest magazine about comics, and the Chairman of the Swedish Comics Association. He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines about comics, heads the Comic Art School of Sweden and sits on the editorial board for the International Journal of Comic Art. Among the books he has written are the English language Swedish Comics History, Black Images in the Comics, The Comics Go to Hell and Comic Art Propaganda. Strömberg lives in Sweden and is currently working on a number of new books about comics.