“Sorry, my mind just blew up, gotta go home.” Embracing Finnish weird and Arctic hysteria in the Finnish comic Fok_it.
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article offers an overview of a popular Finnish internet and newspaper comic, Fok_it, aimingto analyse its characteristic features, mainly how concepts such as “Arctic hysteria” and “Finnishweird” are represented in it. The genres are usually used in a literary context (when referringto 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 comicand how well they could be applied to comics in general.
Source: Studia Scandinavica
Author: Laura Santoo
Institution: University of Gdańsk
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406400286