Carpe Diem

Niklas Eriksson

Born 1973 in Umeå in northern Sweden, he grew up in Hörnefors, the same village as one of the country's football all-time greats, Gunnar Nordahl. Today, Niklas works full-time as a comic-strip artist, and, continuing the sporting theme, now lives and works in Röbäck, the same village as the gold-medallist skier Per Elofsson. Despite his legendary neighbours, it is to the sport of ice-hockey and his local team that his supporter allegiances lay. Other allegiances include his girlfriend, and his dog, a Vorsteh with an enormous nose that comes into its own when hunting grouse. Niklas enjoys winter sports including rink bandy, especially when played in the great windswept outdoors.