I want to make feminist comics, / but I do not want to be preachy. /
Can feminist comics be funny? // Can one pull jokes from structural violence without violating its victims - or making the perpetrators seem like harmless goofies? / "Oh you guys! Hyuk hyuk!" / "Patriarchy is magic!"
The comic
Pepperi, which I've been creating for Northern Finnish
SETAs' magazine
Pulssi, has become increasingly feminist... / In a sense that I'm trying to include other oppressed groups in it, other than white gay men. / (At which point I forgot the funny-part, oops.) // Damn how paranoid I am! / All-inclusive comic is way more sanctimonious hypocrisy than a comic sticking to a social issue or two would be 'white-washed' or 'sexist!' // "That sure took embarrassingly long to realize." / "Leaving the bar setting would already give substance to this chaos of a comic."
(Also there aren't even ten full Pepperi strips in existence holy shit Nixu breathe) / Anyway! I'm hoping to receive answers to all of my questions about feminist comics at
Helsinki Comics Festival at Sep 6.-8. / (There'll be feminist stuff there in case you didn't catch that OKAY SEE YA THERE BYE)
https://www.facebook.com/pepperisarjis : Pepperi the comic, in Finnish only.
http://www.rovaniemenseta.fi/pulssi-lehti/ : Pulssi magazine as PDF files, in Finnish only.
http://sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi/ - Helsinki Comics Festival homepage.
Somehow I felt the need to add this link, too, who needs Google anyway, also who the fuck is Helsinki.