Þórarinn Hugleikur Dagsson

Hugleikur Dagsson (born 5 October 1977), born Thorarinn Hugleikur Dagsson and nicknamed Hulli, is an Icelandic artist. He received a B.A. degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002. He was a film critic on a popular Icelandic radio program on Radio X and hosted another program called Hugleikur on the same station.

Hugleikur is known for all kinds of visual and video art, but is most famous for his satirical comics filled with black humor, which have been published as books and in The Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine. He has also written three stage plays: the first, Fordist okkur (Avoid us), is based on one of his books and tells the story of three dysfunctional families; the second, Leg (Uterus), is a musical about teenage pregnancy in the near future of Iceland; and the third, Badstofan, is a dark vision of Iceland in the 18th century. All the plays received rave reviews, and he received the playwright of the year award for Fordist okkur.

In 2006 Penguin Books published Should You Be Laughing at This?, a collection of cartoons previously published as Fordist okkur by JPV books in Iceland. The second cartoon book, Is This Supposed to be Funny?, was published by Penguin Books in October 2007, and the third book, Is This Some Kind of Joke?, was published in 2008.