WuMo

By Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler

"WuMo" celebrates life's absurdity and bittersweet ironies, holding up a funhouse mirror to our modern world and those who live in it. Thanks to its delightful artwork and irreverent humor, this hilarious comic by writer Mikael Wulff and illustrator Anders Morgenthaler has grown from an underground sensation to one of the biggest and most popular strips in Europe. The inventiveness of "WuMo" is reminiscent of their countryman Hans Christian Andersen—if Andersen's fairy tales had been populated by sadistic pandas, disgruntled office workers, crazy beavers, Albert Einstein, Snoop Dogg, and Darth Vader.

Over the past eight years, Wulff and Morgenthaler have grown their comic strip from an underground sensation to one of the biggest and most popular strips in Europe. Named "WuMo" after the pair’s last names, the hilariously irreverent panel appears in the largest papers in northern Europe, including Germany’s Die Welt, Denmark’s Politiken, and Norway’s Dagbladet.

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About Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler

In addition to creating "WuMo," comedic writer Mikael Wulff and illustrator Anders Morgenthaler developed and run Scandinavia's biggest comedy website, which attracts 200,000 daily users—a significant number for a region with a total population of 15 million. The pair have also created the animated sitcom "The Pandas" in the vein of "South Park" and "The Family Guy." The first three seasons have been wildly popular in Denmark, and the pair is in negotiations to bring the show to North America. Recently, the comedy duo won an award for the Best Illustrated Cookbook at the 2013 Gourmand Awards in Paris.

Wulff is a stand-up comedian and has done several live one-man shows, released DVDs, and done his own TV and radio shows.

Morgenthaler is also a movie director whose films range from children’s movies about talking fruit to avant-garde art-house fare. His debut feature, “Princess,” opened the Directors’ Fortnight program at Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and won awards at several other festivals. He is currently directing and producing an English-language film starring Kim Basinger.

Todd Brown, founder and editor of film site Twitch, writes: “Along with his partner Mikael Wulff, Morgenthaler created a hugely popular series of webcomics that spun off into an animated television series, merchandise, and a global audience in multiple languages. And the reason was very simple: their stuff is very, very funny.”

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