Jan Lööf (b. 1940) is a Swedish illustrator, author, comic creator, and jazz musician.
From 1967 until 1973 he created his most famous comic strip Felix, which soon gained popularity in many parts of the world. Mixing humor and adventure, Felix has sometimes been described as a more naivistic or underground-style version of Tintin in terms of the drawing, but in its themes and morale it is also somewhat leftist.
Later, Lööf created other comics, such as Bellman (a humor strip about a Stockholm hobo) and Ville (1975–76), a "comedic adventure" about an unemployed Stockholm author, teaming up with Olof Palme and Carl XVI Gustaf to fight the bad guys. This was originally serialized in the Swedish periodical Vi.
His children's books are continually popular, both in Scandinavia and elsewhere. Among them are The Story of the Red Apple and Uncle Louie's Fantastic Sea Voyage. Based on these books Lööf produced his own children's show, the animated Skrot-Nisse och Hans Vänner (Scrap-Nisse and his Friends) for Swedish National Television in 1985. --WP
