“Sorry, my mind just blew up, gotta go home.” Embracing Finnish weird and Arctic hysteria in the Finnish comic Fok_it.

Abstrakt

This article offers an overview of a popular Finnish internet and newspaper comic, Fok_it, aiming
to analyse its characteristic features, mainly how concepts such as “Arctic hysteria” and “Finnish
weird” are represented in it. The genres are usually used in a literary context (when referring
to 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 comic
and how well they could be applied to comics in general.