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{{short description|Swedish cartoonist (born 1973)}}
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| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1973|12|24|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Växjö]], [[Sweden]]
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| nationality   = Swedish
| area          = cartoonist
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| notable works = ''[[Rocky (comic strip)|Rocky]]''
| awards        = <!--[[#Awards|full list]]--> 2000 Urhunden Prize
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'''Martin Kellerman''' (born 1973 in [[Växjö]]) is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[cartoonist]], known for the [[comic strip]] ''[[Rocky (comic strip)|Rocky]]''.

He was influenced by American and Swedish [[underground comix|underground cartoonists]] such as [[Peter Bagge]], [[Max Andersson (cartoonist)|Max Andersson]], [[Robert Crumb]], [[Harvey Pekar]], [[Joe Matt]] and [[Mats Jonsson (cartoonist)|Mats Jonsson]].<ref name="Fossberg">{{cite news |first=Harald |last=Fossberg |title=''Hundeliv er helt konge'' |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article1127017.ece |newspaper=Aftenposten |location=Norway |date=March 10, 2005 |accessdate=11 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143459/http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article1127017.ece |archivedate=4 June 2011 }}</ref><ref name="MacDonald">{{cite journal|last=MacDonald |first=Heidi |title=Martin Kellerman: It's a Dog's Life in Sweden |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6289263.html |date=December 6, 2005 |journal=[[Publishers Weekly]] |accessdate=10 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610062842/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6289263.html |archivedate=June 10, 2009 }}</ref> Kellerman states that his work resembles "a mixture between really dark comics and commercial stuff like ''[[Mad (magazine)|MAD]]''. That's why to [underground cartoonists] I'm considered a commercial artist."<ref name="MacDonald"/>

After his girlfriend broke up with him and he was fired from his job as a cartoonist for a [[pornographic magazine]], he created the [[autobiographical]] [[anthropomorphic animal]] comic strip ''[[Rocky (comic strip)|Rocky]]'', about a grumpy, horny, [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]]-loving dog and [[cartoonist]] living in [[Stockholm]]. Kellerman drew the strip as a means of dealing with his current situation and entertaining himself and his friends, but did not initially take it seriously.<ref name="Kellerman">{{cite web|last=Kellerman |first=Martin |title=Biography |url=http://www.rocky-digital.com/bio.html |accessdate=9 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717044256/http://www.rocky-digital.com/bio.html |archivedate=17 July 2009 }}</ref> The strip was picked up by the [[Free daily newspaper|free newspaper]] ''[[Metro International|Metro]]'', and moved from publication to publication because multiple newspapers canceled the strip in response to reader complaints over its profanity and sexual content.<ref name="MacDonald"/><ref name="Kellerman"/>

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://lambiek.net/artists/k/kellerman_martin.htm Martin Kellerman biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060421071413/http://www.rocky-digital.com/ Rocky Digital]

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[[Category:1973 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Växjö]]
[[Category:Swedish comic strip cartoonists]]
[[Category:Swedish comics artists]]
[[Category:Underground cartoonists]]
[[Category:Swedish autobiographers]]

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