Arild Midthun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Norwegian illustrator and cartoonist
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Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
About Arild Midthun
- Arild Midthun (born 6 May 1964) is a Norwegian illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist.
- He was born in Bergen. Among his early production is the comics strip Patrick & Co in the newspaper Bergens Tidende 1977, a spy series written by Tormod Løkling.
- His artistical breakthrough was the strip series Sirkus from 1980 to 1982, written by Terje Nordberg, Eirik Ildahl and Dag Kolstad.
- He was a central illustrator for the humorous magazines Norsk MAD from 1981, and Pyton from 1986 to 1995.
- He was awarded the Sproing Award in 1988, for the album Troll: Sølvskatten, jointly with Terje Nordberg.From 1995 he was appointed as illustrator for the newspaper Aftenposten, and from 2004 he started to contribute illustrations to the Disney comics magazine Donald Duck & Co.
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