This is an interesting one, which I just found by googling “Jucika Halloween” to see if there were any thematic strips to post today. I learned:
- Hungary didn’t start celebrating Halloween until the early 2000s, so there wouldn’t have been any official Halloween comics made.
- The rights to the Jucika comics are kind of in limbo right now. There were no heirs, and nobody seems to know who owns it. It doesn’t become public domain until 2040, but that hasn’t stopped some artists from trying. The credited artist for this one is “KBT Studios”, and they seem to intend to pick up the mantle, unofficially for now.
As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
**Also, check out some Jucika fan art! https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos
**You can find more Jucika content in c/graphicnovels by using this search
Apple-stealings whores, stealing our apples.
Hungary didn’t start celebrating Halloween until the early 2000s
Okay, that’s not exactly correct.
Hungary has celebrated All-Saints Day (or All Souls’ Day) for most of modern history, it being one of the more central Christian holidays. And like most Eastern Christian countries, that and the day of the dead (1st and 2nd of November) kind of blended together, so for us it’s a day or two of remembrance of loved ones who passed on.
Halloween (All Hallow’s Evening) is an invention of the Anglosphere, and is much more recent than the aforementioned Hungarian tradition, appearing around 1840, formed from the various Celtic myths and traditions mixing with Catholic events, much like Christmas. It isn’t Hungary that “doesn’t celebrate Halloween”, but in reality, most of the world doesn’t.
With that said… Hungary is mostly Roman Catholic and Protestant. The Anglican branch doesn’t have much foothold, and most of the aforementioned two groups don’t really consider them to be “true Christians” (and with that I can already see the “no true Scotsman” debate forming in the follow-up comments…).
Because of this, a lot of the Anglosphere influenced/created, religious-ish things are looked down upon in Hungary, to the point where “There’s no halloween in Hungary” has become a meme for the past ~15 years or so.
And while that is the general mentality, Hungarians have been aware of the tradition in popular knowledge since around the 1980s - some telenovelas even incorporated it as a “trendy new thing the young ones are doing”. In reality, in the 80s and 90s, very few would have a halloween party, mostly university/college students who tried to adopt western behaviours as a rebellion against the USSR’s enforced conformity.
The early 2000s brought on a new generation of children who’ve never experienced said Soviet oppression, who’ve had access to the internet, and of course the onslaught of Western media popularising the holiday. But, again, it’s still a very “posh” thing to do, so it’s mostly Budapest’s more affluential, suburban areas that participate in it.
The registration on the red parts being off deliberately is a nice touch.
Good catch, it’s so well done I didn’t even notice.
Not authentic Jucika, but definitely in the spirit.
Props to whomever made it.
how do you know?
it says @kiwiburnttoast above the end of the third panel
ohh he’s the guy who does the Jucika animations though, based on source material I thought?
yes, but he is not the original comic strip maker, the comic ran from the 50s-70s
Counterfeit Jucika! (Half of the charm of this series comes from the age. It was slightly different world then. Shoving in modern themes looks bad as for my taste). So booo!
I generally agree. I probably won’t post any more modern ones, but since it sent me down the rabbit hole and it is Halloween, I figured I’d at least share this one with the class.
Why not though? The graphical quality is on par with originals. The mood is also similar. Post them. Just maybe mark that it is modern fan made materials…
I do think they did a good job capturing the style. At some point I’m going to run out of originals anyway, so maybe I’ll have to start collecting them too.
Booo? 👻
Counterfeit or no, I think this perfectly captures the spirit of the originals.
Not with the American theme. I think that runs quite counter to the originals. It is refreshing to have content that is not US centric for once, and these modern ones very much ruins that.
Hungary didn’t start celebrating Halloween until the early 2000s, so there wouldn’t have been any official Halloween comics made.
It’s the globalised UScentric seasonal celebrations. Be thankful a generic summer one hasn’t propogated.
I say that, but I’m in the fucking southern hemisphere, and suffer from summer christmas. The people wearing the santa costumes must be exhausted. At least the aussies have the right idea with surfer santa.
Be thankful a generic summer one hasn’t propogated.
yeah i kind of like celebrating midsummer.
It was fine when it was one day here. “Spooky season” and its attendant nonsense and plastic tat can get in the bin.
Is that a KH author signature in the spider web of the first frame?
Nice catch. I think you’re right. The artist, as far as I can tell is KiwisBurntToast, but maybe KH is their name.
