Pahkasika

Instead it focused more on such things as alcoholism, family crises, xenophobia and other negative aspects of adult life, all presented in a humorous way that appeared deceptively child-friendly.

Pahkasika was founded by the Vantaa high school students Jukka Mikkola, Markku Paretskoi and Paul Öhrnberg.

The first issue was a small edition made by a stolen manually operated mimeograph, sold at the school at graduation day in 1975.

Its circulation dropped to below ten thousand copies,[3] and Juha Ruusuvuori resigned from the magazine.

The activity of Banana Press started concentrating more and more on mail order, and in 2000 the magazine was discontinued.

[6][7][8][9] According to Markku Paretskoi, the life of Pahkasika spanned from the first media generation of the people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s to the "triage of the Finnish common culture".

When the magazine was born in the 1970s Finland only had two radio and television channels and the average Finn did not have connections outside their own immediate circles.

[11] Recurring strips in Pahkasika included: The magazine also featured irregular articles such as photomanipulations and a course in foreign languages, with all the example phrases having a subtly different (and more humorous) meaning.

For example, computer games for the elderly -catalog had a molotov cocktail joystick for Winter War veterans.