Viivi & Wagner

Viivi & Wagner is a somewhat absurdist Finnish newspaper gag-a-day comic strip drawn since 1997 by Jussi "Juba" Tuomola.

[1] By June 2022, nearly 25 years after its debut, over 7,300 Viivi & Wagner daily strips had been published, and these were republished as 25 compilation albums.

[2] The titular main characters are Viivi, a Finnish woman in her twenties, and Wagner, a mature male pig.

"), or Wagner getting into totally absurd situations, either in everyday life or in a fantasy world ("I'm stuck in the moment before the Big Bang").

Some readers, who have been unaware of the strip's history in a bank's promotional magazine for children, have taken Wagner's porcine appearance as a statement of feminism, specifically implying that "men are pigs".

Viivi & Wagner has, unusually for Finnish comics, spawned spin-off products in the form of alcoholic beverages: "Wagner" lager beer and "Viivi" light perry cider .