Was Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson inspired by a mid-1900′s Swedish cartoon?

Pics from a 1949 Icelandic magazine featuring a cartoon character named Adamson, created by Swedish cartoonist Oscar Jacobsson…Coincidence?

Jacobsson started writing Adamson comic strips in 1920 and continued until his death in 1945. The strip was continued by the Danish cartoonist Viggo Ludvigsen until 1964.

Adamson was known as Silent Sam in America…