It's that newsletter guy who likes Theodor Kittelsen again!
A good time to mention: Kittelsen's fairy tale/ fantasy illustrations get all the attention, but he was also a visual satirist, a sort of proto comic artist, with a great deal of humour and self-irony (he once drew a self-portrait where he's passed out in a hammock, a half-finished painting on his easel, and a pig rooting through his paints box, for instance)
He published a book of newspaper-style single picture comics called "Har dyrene sjæl" ("Do animals have souls?") with anthropomorphic frogs, snails and insects of various kinds. The frogs look a lot like Miyazaki's in "Spirited Away"! I wonder if it was a direct inspiration.
A good time to mention: Kittelsen's fairy tale/ fantasy illustrations get all the attention, but he was also a visual satirist, a sort of proto comic artist, with a great deal of humour and self-irony (he once drew a self-portrait where he's passed out in a hammock, a half-finished painting on his easel, and a pig rooting through his paints box, for instance)
He published a book of newspaper-style single picture comics called "Har dyrene sjæl" ("Do animals have souls?") with anthropomorphic frogs, snails and insects of various kinds. The frogs look a lot like Miyazaki's in "Spirited Away"! I wonder if it was a direct inspiration.