{"id":771,"date":"2011-01-11T05:47:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=771"},"modified":"2011-01-11T05:47:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:47:42","slug":"pondus-norways-most-famous-comic-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/pondus-norways-most-famous-comic-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondus-Norway&#8217;s most famous comic strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/220px-Pondus.png\" aria-label=\"220px Pondus 198x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-772\" title=\"220px-Pondus\"  alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/220px-Pondus-198x300.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been big into comics. \u00a0My brother would read them ever Sunday morning from front to back and laugh hysterically. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure why I never got into them, but I can say that I am more interested in Norwegian comics because they present at least a bit of a challenge. \u00a0I find that reading comics in a second language, similar to reading poems, can be difficult. \u00a0If you are interested in Norwegian comics, you should definitely check out <strong>Pondus<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Pondus<\/strong>, written by <em>Frode \u00d8verl<\/em>i, has brought laughs to Norwegians since 1994. \u00a0It has even been translated into 10 different languages! \u00a0<strong>Pondus<\/strong> entered newspapers in 1996 and became a monthly publication in 2000. \u00a0Not many other comics have made it to the point of a monthly magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/d98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175.gif\" aria-label=\"D98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175 300x96\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-777\" title=\"d98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/d98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175-300x96.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons <strong>Pondus<\/strong> is so popular among Norwegians, and Scandinavians alike, is because it seems that he represents the average Norwegian man. \u00a0He loves <strong>fotball <\/strong>(soccer), is a stand-up family man, and says far less than he thinks, even though he has opinions about everything. \u00a0<em>\u00d8verli<\/em> uses <strong>Pondus<\/strong> and the strip to make fun of things and people that it may praise the next day, so nobody and nothing is safe from a little ridicule here and there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/8fc275ff59b171923bc84720aceb7f44.gif\" aria-label=\"8fc275ff59b171923bc84720aceb7f44 300x97\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-776\" title=\"8fc275ff59b171923bc84720aceb7f44\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/8fc275ff59b171923bc84720aceb7f44-300x97.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pondus<\/strong> and his wife,<strong> Beate <\/strong>have a son, daughter, and dog named <strong>Bjarne. \u00a0Jokke <\/strong>is <strong>Pondus<\/strong>\u00b4best friend. <strong> Jokke <\/strong>is dating <strong>Camilla<\/strong>, with whom he has a baby, <strong>Gordon<\/strong> (funny name for a Norwegian name, isn\u00b4t it;) ? \u00a0Click<a href=\"http:\/\/pondus.no\"> here <\/a>to go to the Pondus homepage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/Pondus-suomi-stor.jpg\" aria-label=\"Pondus Suomi Stor 300x104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-773\" title=\"Pondus-suomi-stor\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/Pondus-suomi-stor-300x104.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is part of <strong>Pondus<\/strong>\u00b4debut in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dagbladet.no\/tegneserie\/pondus\/\">here<\/a> to be taken to the <strong>Pondus<\/strong> section of <em>Dagbladet<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/1db0b4fe65cdd89d010503255e812b59.gif\" aria-label=\"1db0b4fe65cdd89d010503255e812b59 300x101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-774\" title=\"1db0b4fe65cdd89d010503255e812b59\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/1db0b4fe65cdd89d010503255e812b59-300x101.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I apologize if you cannot read the small print, but then you just have to go to the website or read it in the newspaper! \u00a0<strong>Pondus<\/strong> is in 80 newspapers in Norway:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/d98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175-350x113.gif\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/d98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175-350x113.gif 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/01\/d98a3f680c4f432ed13d4e12c347e175-768x248.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>I&#8217;ve never been big into comics. \u00a0My brother would read them ever Sunday morning from front to back and laugh hysterically. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure why I never got into them, but I can say that I am more interested in Norwegian comics because they present at least a bit of a challenge. \u00a0I find that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/pondus-norways-most-famous-comic-strip\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13300,13299],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-norwegian-comics","tag-pondus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}