Bo Secher

Bo Secher blev født den 23.5.1946. Han blev uddannet som elektromekaniker men endte som undervisningschef i det multinationale firma Rank Xerox.
Men som han selv siger: "Jeg har tegnet hele livet, malet og arbejdet med skulpturer. Specielt har jeg kunnet lide at tegne humor. Så da jeg fik mulighed for at lægge slips og jakkesæt, greb jeg chancen!"
Endnu mens han arbejdede for Rank Xerox leverede han satiske tegninger til dagbladet Ekstrabladet. Via en konkurrence om bedste satiriske tegning i det konkurrerende dagblad B.T., fik han kontakt med avisens tegneserieredaktør Karsten Lindhardt, som opfordrede ham til at prøve lykken hos pressebureauet P.I.B.
Bo Secher arbejdede på en ide om en tegneseriestrip med en købmand i centrum. Imidlertid viste dennes ansatte sig at være mere interessante, og Bo Secher endte med at tabe sit hjerte til kassedamen Rita.
Via P.I.B. fik Super Rita, som den kom til at hedde, plads i B.T., hvor den debuterede i januar 1991. Og her har den slagfærdige Rita, hendes kolleger og kunder i Bo Sechers kantede, udtryksfuldt karikerede streg lige siden dagligt fornøjet læserne med humørfyldte og sarkastiske kommentarer til danskerne og deres hverdag.

Bo Secher was born in 1946. He was educated as an electrical engineer but ended up as a director of training for the multinational company Rank Xerox. But as he himself says, "I have drawn all my life, painted and worked with sculpture. I have especially enjoyed drawing cartoons. When I got the chance to give up wearing a suit and tie, I went for it!"
He was already producing satirical drawings for the newspaper Ekstrabladet while still working for Rank Xerox. Through a competition for best satirical drawing in the competing newspaper, B.T., he made contact with the paper’s comics editor, Karsten Lindhardt. Lindhardt suggested that he try his luck with the press agency PIB Copenhagen.
Bo Secher worked on the idea of a comic strip with a grocer as the central character. Eventually, the grocer’s employee proved to be more interesting, and Bo Secher ended with losing his heart to Rita, the cashier. Super Rita, as the strip came to be called, found a place in B.T. via PIB Copenhagen and made its debut in January, 1991. Since then the feisty Rita, her colleagues and customers in Bo Secher’s angular, expressive and caricatured style have delighted daily readers with humourous and sarcastic comments on the Danes and their everday life.