![]() Strömquist tackles society’s conceptions of love in »Prins Charles Känsla« (2010 tr: Prince Charles’ Sentiments): In eight chapters, she explores the »division of reality for males and females and how it results in two forms of narcissism that need each other to survive and require an obligatory heteronormativity« (✽er Spiegel«). The title comes from a comic strip about women in the shadows of their famous husbands, including the physicist Mileva Marić, Einstein’s wife, as well as Priscilla Presley. ✾insteins fru« (2008 tr: Einstein’s Wife) follows the concept of her début and offers a series of socially critical and humorous stories in various formats. The book is about two youths who discuss various hetero- and homosexual love experiences while riding a night bus. Together with Jan Bielecki, in ✽rift« (2007) she created a feminist cartoon series in a 1950s style, but the old gender roles are flipped and men are degraded into sexual objects. She débuted as a comic artist with »Hundra procent fett« (2005 tr: One Hundred Percent Fat), in which she already began addressing social questions, relationships between the sexes, feminism, and politics. In 2005, she was a moderator for the youth radio station Sveriges Radio P3 and for two satirical programs. As a child, she was already drawing comics later, she published her own stories in her fanzine »Rikedomen«. ![]() Liv Strömquist was born in 1978 in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in southern Sweden. ![]()
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