{{Short description|Swedish diplomat and cartoonist}} '''Jan Romare''' (3 January 1936 – 31 August 2017)<ref name=Comiclopedia/> was a Swedish diplomat and cartoonist.<ref name="ne"/>
== Biography == Romare sold his first cartoon, ''Igelkotten Hubert'' ("Hubert the Hedgehog") to the magazine ''Folket i Bild'' in 1953, when he was seventeen years old.<ref name="senkommen premiär"/> He created a few other cartoons for ''Folket i Bild'' and the teenage magazine ''Fickjournalen'' during the 1950s.
Having finished his bachelor's degree, he began working for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and received his first foreign posting at the Swedish embassy in Paris in 1963. During his time as a diplomat he had several postings and served as the head of the Swedish delegation to the UNCHR.<ref name="senkommen premiär"/>
In 1987, Romare's comic strip ''Pyton'', about a man and his python snake, premiered in the daily newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter''. This was Romare's breakthrough as a cartoonist.<ref name="ne"/><ref name="svt"/> It was followed by the comic strip ''Himlens änglar'' (''Heaven's Angels''), a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of life after death.<ref name="senkommen premiär"/> In 1991, Romare took a leave of absence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to focus on his drawing and when he retired in 1998 he began working as a cartoonist on a full-time basis.<ref name="svt"/>
Romare received the Adamson Award for Best Swedish Comic-Strip Cartoonist in 1996.<ref name="ne"/> His cartoons have been collected in a number of albums.
== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Comiclopedia>{{cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/romare_jan.htm |title=Jan Romare |website=Lambiek Comiclopedia |accessdate=14 September 2017 |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912192327/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/romare_jan.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="ne">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Jan Romare |encyclopedia=Nationalencyklopedin}}</ref>
<ref name="senkommen premiär">{{cite news |last=Ljung |first=Håkan |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/namn-och-nytt/senkommen-premiar-for-romare/ |title=Senkommen premiär för Romare |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |date=26 April 2003 |access-date=8 September 2017 |trans-title=Late Premiere for Romare |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909004510/http://www.dn.se/arkiv/namn-och-nytt/senkommen-premiar-for-romare/ |archive-date=9 September 2017}}</ref>
<ref name="svt">{{cite web |url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/serietecknaren-jan-romare-har-gatt-bort |title=Serietecknaren Jan Romare har gått bort |publisher=Sveriges Television |date=6 September 2017 |accessdate=8 September 2017 |trans-title=Comics artist Jan Romare has passed away |archive-date=7 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907165333/https://www.svt.se/kultur/serietecknaren-jan-romare-har-gatt-bort |url-status=live }}</ref> }}
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