The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

The world's most famous Dane, Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and his wonderful fairy tales are loved all over the globe. Besides being a master of the written word, he was also a very talented illustrator. No doubt, had he lived today he would probably have tried his hand at cartooning as well and maybe created some of his fairy tales as comic strips All in all he wrote 157 fairy tales. Here is the comic strip version of six of the most popular and well-known, re-created by Danish cartoonist Werner Wejp-Olsen.