Background
He was born in Haugesund, and settled in Oslo from 1987.
He was born in Haugesund, and settled in Oslo from 1987.
He has specialized on creating comics series based on classical literature. Among his early albums are De knyttede never from 1993 based on a novel by Øvre Richter Frich, and four volumes of Amputerte klassikere. He was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2013, for the biography Munch, a collection of his albums based on the life of painter Edvard Munch.
Munch has been translated into several languages, including French, Dutch, German, Polish, Danish and Korean.
De knyttede never (English: ) is an action novel from 1911, written by Øvre Richter Frich. Kverneland received a two years public grant in 2003.
Olaf Gulbransson He published the album Olaf G. in 2004, a cooperation with Lars Fiske. lieutenant was translated into German language, and the translation into Swedish resulted in the comics award Urhunden in 2008.
Edvard Munch The album series Kanon from 2006 onwards was again a cooperation between Fiske and Kverneland, where they made comics biographies of the painters Kurt Schwitters and Edvard Munch.