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Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Raccoon Sam - 10-27-2011

A few months ago I wanted to create a comic that challenges the traditional norms of a (web) comic by introducing absurd and abstract structure. I don't wish anyone to comment "I don't get it", because sometimes "getting it" means not getting it.
Do not expect the traditional build-up, build-up, punchline-composition from all comics. Several are very open to interpretation.
I came up with "Runkkula", a portmanteau of the words "Runkku" which means wanker/masturbation and "-la", which is the suffix for a place or a setting.
Here are the original comics for Finnish readers.

Here are all of them, translated. I apologize for the shoddy fonts in the first 19. I drew them by hand and don't have really the resources to retouch them perfectly. The 20th and the first colored strip is where I began digitalizing everything so the quality is better in every way in every strip after that.

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then dad left

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and he won

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customer is always right

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typical bunny antics

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....

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the road is also rocky and very long

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and you know we could like tax it and profit the state

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jerry is a single dad

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employee of the year

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a two-day ticket is 60 euros
I left this one untranslated on purpose.. I didn't feel like doing the job needed for it.
The small note says "queue here" and the huge billboard upon the doors says "COCK LAND"

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i think this is one of those dad's games

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and besides i think this is softer concrete than usually

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(it actually was right there and he was serious)

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i was born in Tampere but when me and my parents moved to Runkkula when i was 4 or 5. it was 4 i think. can't remember

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but yeah i guess i manage

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not againnnn

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midsummer is the season for loving

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so deep

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20€ fine

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thank you for your wisdom o guru

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and now it's fucktime

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nA.´éE K RR? R?op &

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where is present

RE: Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Chutzpar - 10-27-2011

cyanide and happiness called



they said you're even less funny than they are

RE: Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Gwen - 10-27-2011

I liked a few of them a lot :C

RE: Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Gors - 10-27-2011

(10-27-2011, 02:52 PM)Stabsinthe Wrote: cyanide and happiness called



they said you're even less funny than they are

I have a question, do we need to be this harsh to convey an opinion?


not joking, I am genuinely asking this

RE: Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Raccoon Sam - 10-27-2011

I dunno, I don't want to be the one who shouts omfg it's my style, fuck, c&h didn't invent stick figures or anything, and I get that a lot, which is ironic since I really got most of my inspiration from Buttersafe and Gunshow, but I can definitely see why some people see Cyanide and Happiness in this.
I don't personally like C&H too much and I'm not saying it's shit, but I don't see what you're after, Stabsinthe..

I just wanted to be original, in some way. Not necessarily in the way of how I convey things with mere imagery, but with how I try to.. like, get some kind of a message through(?)


RE: Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Chutzpar - 10-27-2011

it's primarily stick figures relying on tired shock-humour

that's
pretty much cyanide and happiness' schtick
really not sure how else you'd want me to phrase it gors when i genuinely can't see much salvageable. the humour's tired, the artwork is stick figures and wonky perspective

comics are a medium about images and words and in these, neither are good
plus it's not really experimental to do what's already been done before

i mean are you really asking me to give reasonable and incisive criticism to something called wank-place

RE: Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING) - Gors - 10-27-2011

yeah, I know, but for some reason that felt more acidic than normal to me. Hm.


Okay then, I'll end the discussion here.

[+]late complement to my post