Jan Berglin
[Image:Jan Berglin 2011.jpg|thumb| Jan Berglin in 2011.]
Jan Berglin is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion. He published his early strips in the local social democratic newspaper Arbetarbladet, but became known to a wider audience in 1995, when he started to draw for the Stockholm-based but nationally distributed conservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. His strips have been collected and republished in several albums.
Berglin's strips, usually in four panels, tend to find their humour in a sometimes absurd mix of everyday situations and literary and philosophical references or reflections. When he was awarded the Alf Henrikson Prize in 2004, the jury's motivation spoke of his renditions of the "existence of the everyday human between ideals and matter".
In later years Berglin has acknowledged the input of his wife Maria Berglin, an artist and literary critic, within his strips by signing them "Berglins".
Albums
Samlade serier Avanti! – Serier för förryckta Mitt i currykrysset – serier mot sekelslutsleda Andra bullar! Knektöppning – Ess i topp Magnum Berglin: Samlade teckningar 1989-1999 Lagom Berglin Pytte Berglin Berglinska Tider Berglin nästa Berglins Tolva Berglin den trettonde : samlade teckningar av Jan och Maria Berglin Varje dag man inte köper pizza är en seger Berglin den trettonde, Kartago 2008 Någon ser dig när du petar näsan Galago, 2010 Bronto Berglin, Galago 2011 Den speciella & den allmänna vardagsteorin, Bonnier Fakta, 2012 Det är den som möter som ska backa, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2013 Berglins stora bok om kropp & hälsa, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2014 Mitt i rondellen, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2014 Det sista rotavdraget, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2015 God Jul Luj Dog – samlade julteckningar, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2015 Serier från andra våningen, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2016 Kaos är granne med Bjällermalms Natur och Kultur, 2017 Nämenvaf…, Natur och Kultur, 2018 Nya bokstavskombinationer, Natur och Kultur, 2019 Samtidsrysningar, Natur och Kultur, 2020 Berglins Guld: De bästa serierna från 2009–2019, Kartago 2021 Bland pannben och styrkekramar, Kartago 2021