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Hanne Monge Sigbjørnsen (born 1989) is a Norwegian cartoonist, blogger and nurse under the pseudonym "Tegnehanne". Her Tegnehanne blog has received acclaim by media outlets and awards.
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Sigbjørnsen started her blog in 2010. She created her blog following her move from Bryne to Oslo. Her blog features comic strips about the character Tegnehanne in events mainly inspired by real events. One example originates from a moment in 2009 when Sigbjørnsen was working in a part-time job at a Peppes Pizza in Bryne and was scolded by a customer unhappy with her coffee. She chose to study nursing instead of animation, her other considered option. The character was also given a nursing career following Sigbjørnsen's completed nursing study. Her blog's genre is described by the website Sykepleien as "a cross between a comic and a blog"; She maintains that she's honest, an element that her audience likes. The majority of readers are females ages 20–30. She also created the comic H&M that was published online and on the publications Sandnesposten, Dagbladet, and Inside.
The Teggnehanne comic strips were first printed for the magazine Spirit and since 2013 has been included in Aftenposten online. In 2015, a book including older strips from her blog and new ones was published; the first edition has been sold out and the second edition was arriving as of October 2015.
Awards and honours
Sigbjørnsen's blog was named as blog of the year in the Vixen Blog Awards 2011. In 2012, she was honored by Nettavisen to have "Norway's most beloved blog." Siri Narverud Moen, a comic reviewer for NRK, noted the blog content's coverage of "life's trivialities" and that it "increasingly touches important questions of life and death" while reviewing the original book. Moen also praised the humor of the blog and its reflection to the truth. She was given the Pondus award in 2015, the first woman to do so.