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Moomin is created by the Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson in 1945, and the books have been translated into more than 40 languages.

The Moomin books make up an extraordinary collection of artwork, from expressive pen and ink drawings in the novels to explosively colourful illustrations in the picture books. Thousands of comic strip illustrations complete the collection, making it a tremendous source of inspiration and material for design.

A TV animation is sold to 140 countries.

A new movie animation is launched in 2014.

Tove Jansson 100 years - 2014. © Apple Corps Ltd, a Beatles™ product.

The Beatles is the most successful phenomenon in the music history with sales of more than 1,5 billion records. The group is still selling huge, more than forty years after the break-up.

There are more than 200 licensees all over the world producing many different products, and the artwork consists of thousands of photos, graphics, album covers and logotypes from the merry sixties. © 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc/Fleischer Studios Inc. ™ Hearst Holdings, INC. /Fleischer Studios, Inc. www.bettyboop.com

Betty Boop is the first sex symbol of the silver screen, created by Max Fleischer in the early thirties. She has turned out to be an American cult icon, —a forever young Diva.

Her popularity is still huge, with one of the biggest licensing programs worldwide for a variety of products. The artwork is divided into many themes and emotions.

Popeye was created in 1929 by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared as a comic strip character. Soon Popeye went to Hollywood in animated short films for Paramount Pictures.

Over the years, Popeye has appeared in television cartoons, videogames, comic books, advertisements and live-action films.

There are numerous licensees producing all kind of products worldwide with this very special character and he is still very popular and well-known.

In 2014 there will be a launch of a new movie animation. Sony Pictures have produced classic movies for many decades and the artwork consists of a huge material from many different, very wellknown movies like Easy Rider, Taxi Driver, Ghostbusters, Karate Kid, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Charlie´s Angels, to mention a few.

Hotel Transylvania 2 is an upcoming American 3D computer animated fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. It is the sequel to the 2012 film Hotel Transylvania.The film is scheduled to be released on September 25, 2015, by Columbia Pictures.

Goosebumps is an upcoming 2015 American horror fantasy film directed by Rob Letterman and written by Mike White and Darren Lemke. It is based on the children's book series of the same name by R. L. Stine. The film is scheduled to be released on August 7, 2015. © 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc. ™Hearst Holdings, Inc.

The Phantom is a classic adventure strip legend created by Lee Falk in the thirties. He has been fighting against crooks and killers for 400 years.

In the sixties, the artwork was developed by Sy Barry and his artistic expression inspired a lot of painters and illustrators.

The comic strip has been published in numerous newspapers worldwide since 1939, still running today. At its peak the strip was read by over one hundred million people daily. © 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc. ™Hearst Holdings, Inc.

Flash Gordon, the comic strip character was created in the thirties by the artist Alex Raymond. It soon became very popular in America, especially during the fifties and the sixties with the growing interest of space adventures.

Modesty Blaise is a comic strip character created by British author Peter O'Donnell. The first printed adventures of Modesty appeared in the London Evening Standard in 1963 with art by Jim Holdaway. Later in the seventies Enric Badia Romero made the artwork.

The character Modesty Blaise is a symbol for an independent, strong and very cool woman in the adventure section of books, comics and movies. The pop-art illustrations can be used in a variety of colour settings. © 2012 Subafilms Ltd, A Yellow Submarine™ product.

Yellow Submarine is the animated Beatles movie, released in 1968. It is regarded as a visionary masterpiece, a reflection of the psychedelic, Flower Power era. It was made by a creative team, lead by Heinz Edelmann.

The music is a mix of previous original Beatles tracks and the title song, ”Yellow Submarine”, was first recorded for the Revolver album in 1966.

Hägar the Horrible is the main character of an American comic strip created by Dik Browne (1917-1989). It became a huge success when it was launched in 1973, and it is still today very popular in many countries. The Hägar comic strip is distributed to 1.900 newspapers in 58 countries, translated into 13 languages (as of 2010).

The strip is a wild caricature of the medieval Scandinavian Viking. ©Skansen.

Skansen is one of the strongest trademarks in Sweden, 98% of all Swedes are familiar with Skansen and about 1.4 million people are visiting each year, 35% are tourists from other countries.

Skansen has a huge collection of Swedish old handicraft from all parts of the country, and a great knowledge about this heritage.

Rescently lots of these traditional textile patterns have been recreated in vectorized patterns in order to use these beautiful artwork once again, for modern purposes.

Paddington. The first book of the bear by Michael Bond was published in 1958. The Paddington books have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 40 languages.

Globally, there are about 265 licensees producing many kind of products with the British bear.

A new movie animation is launched in 2014. ©Nemi AS/ distr. Bulls

Nemi, created by the Norwegian artist Lise Myhre, has been very successful as a dynamic and very colourful character in books, albums and also in many (80) daily newspapers. The artwork library consists of numerous book covers and Comic strip illustrations.

She is published in more than ten countries.

KISS remains one of the most iconic and influential bands in the history of rock and roll. As one of America´s top gold-record champions, KISS has released 44 albums and sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.

We can offer licensees the possibility to use a huge and extravagant artwork library through Epic Rights. In August 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days (August 15-18). Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among the line-up. Woodstock is known as one of the greatest happenings of all time.

John Ono Lennon, MBE 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the rock band The Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

With Paul McCartney, he formed a songwriting partnership that is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century.

We can offer licensees the possibility to use a huge and colourful artwork library, including photos and paintings, through Epic Rights. © Lars Mortimer/Egmont Kärnan AB

Hälge is a comic strip character by Lars Mortimer and it is all about a sad and lonely moose in the big Swedish forrest, always hunted by some local, crazy moosehunters. He always manage to escape however.

Hälge has been published in 49 newspapers in Sweden, and is also published in many albums and books. There are many licensing products with this very popular moose, most rescently there was a launch of a special branded Swedish Whisky, now available at Systembolaget. Fifty Shades of Grey, The trilogy of three books, created by the British author E.L. James has since the release in may 2011 been sold in more than 60 million copies worldwide.

The books have been launched in more than 37 countries.

™&© Fifty Shades Limited 2013 Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series that has won ten Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama.

The Writers Guild of America named Breaking Bad the 13th best-written TV series of all time. That same year, Guinness World Records called it the highest-rated TV series of all time. Temple Run is an addictive, endless running, mega hit computer game developed and published by the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios.

There is a styleguide available consisting of characters, symbols, textures and logos. 100 MILLION + DOWNLOADS WORLDWIDE!

™ & © 2014 Imangi Studios, LLC all rights reserved. Downton Abbey, the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning drama, has become a worldwide phenomenon. Full of splendour and passion, romance and heartbreak, scandal and rumour, Downton Abbey is the most successful British drama series ever created, with over 10 million viewers in the UK only.

Set in an English Country House, spanning the years leading up to World War 1 and through the 1920s, Downton Abbey tells the story of the aristo- cratic Crawley family and the people who serve them.

Average viewers per episode: Sweden: 1,2 million Denmark, Norway, Finland: 600 000 per episode and country

Season 5 in production, broadcasting end of 2015. Season 6 is at script stage, planned for 2016.

Downton Abbey™. 2014 Carnival Film & Television Limited. All Rights Reserved. British Motor Heritage Classic British cars like MG, Austin, Morris and Rover have been sold and advertised with remarkable artwork since the 1950s.

The beautiful retro designs, used for advertisements and sales materials for the launch of the original vehicles, are now available for merchandising, together with the classic car logotypes.

Pettson and Findus are characters, wellknown in Sweden, from a series of children’s books written and illustrated by Sven Nordqvist.

The books have been translated into 44 languages. In addition to this animations have been produced both for TV and for the cinema.

A new movie animation is launched in 2014.

Elvis is created by Tony and Maria Cronstam.

Since the first publishing of the comic strip around the year 2000, it has been developing rapidly through numerous of books and albums.

In 1994, Patrick McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. McDonnell has received numerous awards for this strip, including the National Cartoonists Society's highest honor, The Reuben, for Cartoonist of the Year, five Harvey Awards for Best Comic Strip, Germany’s Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip, and the Swedish Academy of Comic Art's Adamson Statuette.

The MUTTS cartoons have been published in seventeen compilation books in the U.S. and in numerous collections throughout the world. Bulls Licensing is a part of Bulls Press, a family-owned company established in 1929. During the years Bulls have gathered many of the classic characters for syndication, publishing and licensing in the Nordic countries.

Bulls Licensing Fabrikörvägen 8, Box 1228, 131 28 Nacka Strand, Sweden ...and many more email: [email protected], tel: +46 (0)8 555 206 00 web: www.bulls.se