__NOTOC__ Samuli Lintula (born 1971), who goes under the penname Samson, is a Finnish

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best known for the

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Dark Side of the Horse ''Dark Side of the Horse'' ( fi, Musta hevonen, "the black horse") is a Finnish comic strip, written and drawn by the comics artist Samuli Lintula under the pen name Samson. The strip features the horses Horace (''Heikki'', a steed) and Melody (' ...

Biography

Lintula grew up in Finland, reading comics such as

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, B.C., Peanuts, and Beetle Bailey. He attended college for two semesters and managed to sell cartoons to Finnish magazines during this time. In 1994 after dropping out of college, he began contributing to the Finnish cartoon magazine '' Myrkky'' which he continued until its discontinuation in 2008. From 1998, Lintula worked to get a cartoon syndicated. In 2008, he had the idea for "Dark Side of the Horse". This comic has been syndicated by Royal Comics Syndicate and appears on GoComics.

Published works

* 2013: Year of the Horse: A Dark Side of the Horse Collection

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lintula, Samuli 1971 births Living people Finnish cartoonists