Pertti Jarla (born 25 August 1971 in
Nastola
Nastola is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged with the city of Lahti on 1 January 2016.
In the province of Southern Finland, Nastola is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality had a population of (30 June 2015) and cover ...
,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
) is a
Finnish
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* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
comics artist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...
most famous for his humorous
Fingerpori
''Fingerpori'' is a Finnish comic strip written and drawn by Pertti Jarla. It started in ''Helsingin Sanomat'' in February 2007, and is comprehensively distributed in major provincial newspapers. Literally, ''fingerpori'' is a thimble, but ''fi ...
comic strip.
Jarla's humor is strongly based on
wordplay
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of word play include puns, phone ...
and he also deals with subjects which are testing the boundaries of
political correctness
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.
Jarla is a relatively famous person in Finland and is often interviewed by the Finnish media.
References
External links
*
Pertti Jarla's official website
1971 births
Living people
Finnish comics artists
Finnish comic strip cartoonists
Finnish satirists
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