''Jasso-kissa'' (
Finnish for "Jasso the
cat") is a
Finnish comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...
drawn by
Jii Roikonen.
''Jasso-kissa'' is a comical strip about an
anthropomorphic
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology.
Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics t ...
cat who lives on his own more or less like a human (although he does, from time to time, have a human flatmate who used to be a circus clown). The cat, called Jasso, has a
tail that acts as a separate character who has its own mind and is capable of speech. Jasso is the only named character in the entire strip.
The strip is based largely on absurd
humour which deals with everyday life and on playing around with language. For example, the details of background objects often inexplicably change between panels. Texts written on background objects typically also go through several different spellings, and some small objects such as
doorknobs or
trashcans may change their shape to a different design.
Jasso and his tail usually speak by changing the unvoiced
consonants of the Finnish language (''k'', ''p'' and ''t'') to their voiced versions (''g'', ''b'' and ''d''). The dialog also tends to be full of
puns.
External links
Official pages of Jasso the cat
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Fictional cats
Finnish comic strips
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