“Sorry, my mind just blew up, gotta go home.” Embracing Finnish weird and Arctic hysteria in the Finnish comic Fok_it. Cover Image

“Sorry, my mind just blew up, gotta go home.” Embracing Finnish weird and Arctic hysteria in the Finnish comic Fok_it.
“Sorry, my mind just blew up, gotta go home.” Embracing Finnish weird and Arctic hysteria in the Finnish comic Fok_it.

Author(s): Laura Santoo
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Gdański
Keywords: humour; Finnish weird; Arctic hysteria; comics; carnivalisation

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an overview of a popular Finnish internet and newspaper comic, Fok_it, aiming to analyse its characteristic features, mainly how concepts such as “Arctic hysteria” and “Finnish weird” are represented in it. The genres are usually used in a literary context (when referring to novels and short stories), yet rarely when describing comics or graphic novels. Therefore, the aim is to explore if and how the above-mentioned concepts are shown in the selected comic and how well they could be applied to comics in general.

  • Issue Year: 28/2024
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 115-131
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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