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created on: 7/03/2021
by: detum (11641)
 
 

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Fingerpori is a Finnish comic strip written and drawn by Pertti Jarla. It started in Helsingin Sanomat in February 2007, and is comprehensively distributed in major provincial newspapers. Literally, fingerpori is a thimble, but fingerporillinen is a proverbial small amount of alcohol, and Pori is a Finnish town.

The main setting of the strip is Fingerpori, an imaginary Finnish small town. The main character in the strip is the eyeglass-wearing Heimo Vesa, but other citizens also appear, such as the brash-mouthed café worker Rivo-Riitta. As well as the Fingerpori residents, the strip has included characters such as the Pope, The Phantom, Spider-Man, Adolf Hitler, Kimi Räikkönen and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. A few strips, featuring Jesus, have caused controversy in some circles.

Some of the media where Fingerpori strips have been published have sometimes demanded changes to the strips and left some of the strips they claim are offensive unpublished. Sex, religion, and laughing at Adolf Hitler and corporations have been particularly sensitive points.

The humour in Fingerpori is largely verbal and is often based on (mostly untranslatable) wordplay and puns. For instance, Vesa works at the multidisciplinary research center Fingerpoli, where "girls with pigtails" is a result of a bungled stem cell experiment. Jokes are often also based on allusions, such as recurrent jokes about the skull ring of The Phantom. Besides this, the strips often have an absurdist element. According to Jarla, his original vision for Fingerpori was to create a milieu of an "East German Duckburg", but the current Fingerpori is more like a Finnish town still stuck to the 1970s as in Aki Kaurismäki's films. Although Fingerpori contains some political satire, the author claims it is not a political comic strip.

The comics have also been adapted into a multitude of theather performances and one film. The film, titled Fingerpori, was directed by Mikko Kouki and was released in the autumn of 2019. The franchise also features merchandise such as towels, clothing, patches and mugs.
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Submitted by : detum (11641)
on : 07/03/2021