Bamse

Bamse is a Swedish cartoon created in the 60’s by Rune Andréasson. Charged with his granny’s famous ”thunder honey”, Bamse is every thief’s worst nightmare! Creator Rune Andréasson got a teddy bear as a gift on his first birthday. The beloved bear inspired him to create several comic bears that finally became the teddy bear we today know as BAMSE – the world’s strongest bear. The first issue of the main Bamse comic came out over 50 years ago, in 1973, and is still popular to this day with 45 magazines published annually.

• Created in 1966, celebrates 60 years in 2026
• First published as a weekly series and as a movie on television 
• Creator Rune Andréasson did everything himself; wrote stories and made cartoons 
• In 1990, Egmont Publishing took over the comic production 
• An important part of Swedish children’s reading development
• Over 160 000 monthly listeners on Spotify 
• The new film ”Bamse and the World’s Smallest Adventure” premiered in 2023