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Viivi And Wagner
''Viivi & Wagner'' is a somewhat absurdist Finnish newspaper gag-a-day comic strip drawn since 1997 by Jussi "Juba" Tuomola. 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. The concept has also been adapted for the stage, as well as for audio books. ''Viivi & Wagner'' has been exported to eg. Sweden, Estonia, Japan and China. Concept The titular main characters are Viivi, a Finnish woman in her twenties, and Wagner, a mature male pig. Wagner is fully anthropomorphic and sentient, yet still considers himself a pig instead of a human. Though often mistaken for married, the two are cohabitating in an ''Odd Couple''-ish relationship and genuinely fond of each other when not bickering. The comic originally appeared in ''Kultapossu'', a promotional children's magazine by a Finnish bank. In the original version of the comic, Viivi was a small girl and Wagner was her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jussi Tuomola
Jussi Tuomola, pen name Juba (born 8 November 1965 in Lahti) is a Finnish cartoonist. Tuomola is best known for his ongoing comic strip '' Viivi & Wagner'', about the relationship of a woman and a pig. He has also worked on the ''Punaniska'' and '' Myrkky'' comics and the Finnish version of ''MAD'' Magazine. He has even drawn a religious comic book album set in biblical times, called ''Älä pingota, Paavo! Ota viinirypäleitä...'' (''"Take it easy, Paulie! Have some grapes..."'') Tuomola first started drawing at pre-school age in Rovaniemi, copying cover art from Finnish ''Aku Ankka'' comics. At the age of six and seven he started trying his hand at comics of his own. His first completed comic was called ''Tom Taylor'', an American-style detective comic inspired by the ''Tex Willer'' comics and an American TV detective show called Baretta. In 1976, Tuomola moved from Rovaniemi to Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
