Simon Stålenhag

Swedish artist and designer

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March 14 2025 Netflix released the film adaptation of The Electric State, produced by Andy and Barbara Muschietti, with the Russo brothers involved in the project.
August 2024 Free League Publishing launched a Kickstarter for Stålenhag's fifth book 'Swedish Machines', described as his most personal work exploring masculinity, sexuality, and time.
November 2021 Image Comics published the North American edition of 'The Labyrinth'.
2020 Announced his fourth art book 'The Labyrinth' via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
April 3 2020 Amazon Prime released the entire first season of the Tales from the Loop television series, comprising eight 50-57 minute episodes, adapted from Stålenhag's narrative art books.
2019 Film adaptation plans for The Electric State were officially confirmed.
2019 'The Electric State' was shortlisted for the Locus Award in the Art Book category.
2019 'The Electric State' was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
October 2018 Skybound Books published the North American edition of 'The Electric State'.
September 2018 Simon & Schuster published the UK edition of 'The Electric State', his third art book centered on a teenage girl and her robotic companion.
2017 Movie rights for The Electric State were sold to the Russo brothers.
2016 A Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund a tabletop role-playing game called Tales from the Loop, based on Stålenhag's book, set in the 1980s in the United States or Sweden.
2016 Created artwork depicting hypothetical results of rising ocean levels for Stockholm University's Resilience Centre.
2016 Stålenhag published his second narrative art book 'Things from the Flood' (Flodskörden in Swedish), continuing the narrative around the Loop.
2014 Simon Stålenhag released his first narrative art book 'Tales from the Loop' (Ur Varselklotet in Swedish), focusing on the construction of a supermassive particle accelerator called the Loop.

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