Nemi er den norske tegneserien som har slått desidert best an i resten av verden. Den er oversatt til ca. femten språk, og får via nett og bøker stadig nye fans i alle verdenshjørner. Lise Myhre har gjennom årene utviklet sin svartkledde rebell til en figur med mange ulike sider - spontan, frekk og morsom, men også tenksom, leken, vâr og underfundig - hun er kort sagt svært så menneskelig. Det er vel også derfor så mange kjenner seg igjen i serien. Årets bok samler det beste fra årene 2007 og 2008 - striper, helsider, forsider og mye annet - og her begynner en ny fase i Lise Myhres forfatterskap å tre frem. Figuren Nemi er stadig like kjapp i replikken, men her er også kloke funderinger rundt det å leve i forhold, å velge mellom ansvar og frihet, i det hele tatt ting selv en opprører før eller siden må ta stilling til. Boka inneholder den fantastiske firesiders historien om Døden, som har blitt mange leseres favoritt, og en vakker bildelegging av Inger Hagerups dikt Den korsfestede sier.
Norwegian cartoonist. Her most famous cartoon is Nemi.
After a short study of graphical design at the Santa Monica College of Art in California, Lise Myhre started her career as an artist, earning money illustrating CD covers and t-shirts. She also participated in cartoon competitions and started giving contributions to Larsons Gale Verden, the Norwegian version of Gary Larson's magazine The Far Side ("M.P." in 1996).
From 1997, Myhre was given her own page in Larsons Gale Verden, "Den svarte siden" (English: the Black Side/Page), and this developed into Nemi. From 1999, Nemi was a guest cartoon in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, and from 2000 as a regular. The first Nemi album was published the summer 2000, and it was a great success. Since Myhre changed publisher, from Bladkompaniet to Egmont, in January 2003, there is a new Nemi magazine published every 6 weeks.
Nemi, with a circulation of more than 70,000 copies, is now one the two most popular cartoons in Norway, next to Pondus.
Nemi is today published in approximately 60 different newspapers, magazines and websites in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, England and Scotland. Amongst these, the Metro (in England, Scotland and Ireland), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), Ilta-Sanomat (Finland) and Dagbladet (Norway) are the biggest.
Lise Myhre has also illustrated poems by Edgar Allan Poe and André Bjerke.
She is married to musician ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), and they have a son, Storm, born 2007.
This years Nemi :) book . This year it is the numbers of the cartoon from 2007 to 2008 including the Xmas albums. Every little cartoon strip is filled with black humor. Highly recommended.