Rocky (comic strip)

"Rocky" is a Swedish comic strip created by Martin Kellerman. It was first published in the free newspaper "Metro Stockholm" in 1998, and later picked up by "Aftonbladet" and "Dagens Nyheter". Rocky himself is a dog, just like every other character in the strips are anthropomorphic animals. Rocky is Kellerman's way of writing an autobiography, the stories are about him and his friends' everyday life in Stockholm. That is also the reasoning behind the anthropomorphic characters; Kellerman once said that realistically depicting him and his friends in their embarrassing situations would be an insult towards him and his buddies.

The strips have been collected in several books, first one published in 1999. On August 10, 2004 the first edition of "Rocky" the comic magazine was released in Sweden, Rocky had already had his own magazine in Norway for a year by then. In November 2005 the first book was released in United States. Thirteen books have been published in Swedish as of 2008. Rocky has also been performed as a touring play in Sweden in 2000. A 3D computer-animated TV-series is under production for the public Swedish television.

Translations

The comic has been translated to Norwegian, Danish, English and French, either as a running strip or collected in book form.

External links

* [http://www.rocky-digital.com Rocky Digital]