Tom og Jerry #1/2011
Tom og Jerry #1/2011 is part of the relaunched Norwegian-language series that Hjemmet / Egmont began in 2010, directly after the Warner Bros. license returned to Egmont when Schibsted ceased comics publishing altogether — ending nearly a decade during which Egmont had been shut out of the title. As the first January issue of the second year of that relaunched run, it represents the Egmont imprint consolidating its hold as essentially the sole remaining comic publisher in the Scandinavian market capable of sustaining a Tom and Jerry periodical. The series kept Tom and Jerry a continuous monthly presence for Norwegian children during a period when the characters were experiencing renewed attention globally, including new direct-to-video films from Warner Bros. Animation.
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The immediate publishing context of this issue flows from a complicated licensing saga: Egmont lost the Tom & Jerry comics license in 2001 because Warner Bros. did not want the same company publishing both its own and Disney's intellectual properties in Scandinavia, even in a small market. The title then passed through Full Stop Media (2001–2005) and Schibsted (2006–2009) before returning to Egmont once Schibsted exited comics entirely. Egmont relaunched the Norwegian series as the 'Hjemmet / Egmont, 2010 series,' picking up the numbering from Schibsted's final issue, and ran it monthly — twelve issues per year — through at least 2019. Like others in the Egmont run, this issue almost certainly drew on material produced by Spanish artist Oscar Martin, who has been the principal creator of licensed European Tom and Jerry comic stories since 1986, working first through Condor Verlag, then Semic Press, and then Egmont after Egmont acquired Semic in 1997.
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- Published by Hjemmet / Egmont (indicia publisher: Egmont Serieforlaget AS) as part of the Norwegian 'Tom og Jerry' 2010 series, which launched as a direct continuation of the preceding Bladkompaniet / Schibsted run.
- The Hjemmet / Egmont series resumed the Tom & Jerry license after Warner Bros. returned it to Egmont when Schibsted ceased comics publishing around 2009–2010.
- The series published twelve issues per year (monthly frequency), confirmed by GCD indicia data for the 2011 run.
- Tom and Jerry are the only characters indexed for this issue; both are Warner Bros.-licensed funny-animal characters originally created for MGM by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, first appearing in the 1940 theatrical short 'Puss Gets the Boot.'
- The European Tom & Jerry comics in this era were primarily created by Spanish artist Oscar Martin, who has written and drawn the characters since 1986 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Warner Bros. for that work in 2002.
- Egmont acquired the Swedish publisher Semic Press — the original home of Oscar Martin's Tom & Jerry production — in 1997, giving Egmont a long institutional relationship with the characters even through the years when it did not hold the license.
- No issue-specific story contents for #1/2011 are indexed in any publicly accessible database (GCD, Tom & Jerry Fandom Wiki, or otherwise); the issue falls in a gap in online indexing coverage.
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