Liv Strömquist

Liv Strömquist (born February 3, 1978) is a Swedish comics artist and radio presenter. She is best known for her comics that employ satire, humor, and academic research to critique sociopolitical issues, particularly from a feminist perspective. Her work frequently deconstructs themes such as the nuclear family, romantic love, and gender inequality. Strömquist's comics have been described as a form of "popular education" or "gender studies in the medium of comics."

Life and career

Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up drawing comics at the age of 23. Her flatmate made her interested in comic fanzines then. With Rikedomen, she published her first own fanzine.

Her breakthrough as a comic artist followed with her first album Hundra procent fett ("One hundred percent fat"), which was published in 2005. She regularly publishes in the comic magazine Galago in various magazines and newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Arbete, Bang, Aftonbladet and Ordfront Magasin. She designed the cover for the 2013 album Shaking the Habitual by the band The Knife. She also made a comic strip for the band's website, which depicted income inequality in a satirical manner.

Strömquist studied sociology at Lund University and earned a degree in political science at Malmö University. Strömquist has been awarded an honorary doctorate twice. In 2016 by Malmö University and in 2021 by UCLouvain.