Fredde Lanka is a gay Swedish proto-bear illustrating smutty, silly comics for the queer gamer generation who don’t read Foucault. A university lecturer and youth worker with his own queer art school in London (Queer Youth Art Collective), Christian moms have warned that Lanka is teaching the children an ‘asses up lifestyle’.
Rich gays who work in marketing are also a fan. Lanka has produced murals and illustrations for Youtube, Google and Conde Nast. A retiring erotic ceramicist, his pots have been sold at Liberty Department Store in London. And Trixie Mattel owns one apparently.
Fred’s visual art style is synonymous with nightlife and drag cabaret scenes in London, Birmingham and Stockholm, capturing the community at its most vibrant and diverse.
He also draws on the porno-politico-surrealism of Keith Haring, the heavy demonic blackwork of Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and the naive, brash comic studies of Nina Hemingsson.