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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 currently syndicated in ''Satakunnan kansa'', ''Aamulehti'', ''Karjalainen'', ''Keskisuomalainen'', ''Turun Sanomat'' and ''Etelä-Saimaa''. Several strip collections in album format have also been published. The central milieu 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 Fingerporians, 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.〔(Obnoxious, droll, tasteless: We can deal with the double entendres in ''Fingerpori'', but Jesus is too much. ) Siikavirta, Pekka. ''Turunsanomat.fi'', 2 April 2008, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 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.〔Jarla, Pertti. Fingerporin naamakirja 2. Arktinen Banaani, Helsinki 2014. P. 50.〕 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.〔(HS's new comic strip Fingerpori is its creator's naïvistic view of the world. ) Römpötti, Harri. ''HS.fi'', 2 April 2008, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 ==Publication history== The original form of ''Fingerpori'' was a strip by the same author called ''Karl-Barks-Stadt'', which won the third prize in the strip category of a Nordic comics contest at the Kemi comics days in 2006. According to the judging board, ''Karl-Barks-Stadt'' was "a really well drawn strip, whose unexpressionistic characters give a lively life to the joke told by the strip".〔(Results of the Nordic comics contest 2006. ) Kemi comics centre, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 After winning the prize, ''Karl-Barks-Stadt'' appeared in November 2006 in ''Ilta-Sanomat'' as the Finnish strip of the month.〔(Get Jarla to Hesari! ) Koivurinne, Wade. ''Kvaak.fi'', 20 January 2007, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 ''Karl-Barks-Stadt'' was Jarla's first continuous comic strip, he had previously only made short one-time strips to the humour magazine ''Pahkasika'' and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world.〔 The name of the strip is a portmanteau, referring to the East German Karl-Marx-Stadt (currently known as Chemnitz) and the cartoonist Carl Barks. In the turn of the year 2006–2007, ''Helsingin Sanomat'' was looking for a new Finnish comic strip to its pages, and the newspaper's comics editor Eeva Lepistö turned her attention to ''Karl-Barks-Stadt''.〔 The strip, now renamed ''Fingerpori'', started appearing in ''Helsingin Sanomat'' on 5 February 2007. It replaced ''Tiger'', having appeared in the newspaper for over 40 years, whose creator Bud Blake had retired in 2004.〔(A farewell to ''Tiger''. ) Römpötti, Harri. ''HS.fi'', 4 February 2007, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 Fingerpori 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. In April 2008, the comics publisher Arktinen Banaani published the first ''Fingerpori'' album.〔(New publications in spring 2008. ) Arktinen Banaani, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 The album, like the whole strip, received mixed response. In ''Helsingin Sanomat'', professor Olli Alho criticised ''Fingerpori'' because its humour is mostly based on homonym puns, which do not interest the mature reader. He compared the strip's "view of the body and the soul" to the grotesque realism defined by Mikhail Bakhtin and its representatives, such as François Rabelais.〔(A Fingerpori of cartoon comedy: Pentti Jarla's grotesque world. ) Alho, Olli. ''HS.fi'', 12 April 2008, accessed 19 August 2008.〕 In contrast, the ''Plaza.fi'' Kaista review praised ''Fingerpori'' as "the best new Finnish strip for a long time",〔(''Fingerpori'' by Pertti Jarla ( * * * *). ) Junni, Tatu. ''Plaza.fi'', 21 April 2008, Kynämies Oy. Accessed 19 August 2008.〕 and in a review in ''Suomen Kuvalehti'', Jarla was praised for bringing Finnish pun humour to a new and fresh level.〔Special people – what connects Heimo Vesa's Fingerpori and Elias Lönnrot's Kajaani? Jantunen, Jyrki. ''Suomen Kuvalehti'', 15/2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fingerpori」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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