The charming little world of "Jucika" (16 comics, with some notes)

⬆️ "Costume required" ⬆️

Jucika is a Magyar (Hungarian) series, which ran from 1957 - 1970, right until the unfortunate loss of its creator, Pál Pusztai.

Right so, let's check out some strips--

Jucika's title character is a young, attractive woman who gets into a variety of different situations, often risqué and suggestive. The comic often satirizes and parodies sexism, with many of the strips revolving around unwanted attention from men and how she sometimes uses it to her advantage. --WP

I would think the above is a Marilyn Monroe tribute, based on "The Seven Year Itch" (1955). All well before my time, but I get the sense that one of the funny (absurd / ridiculous?) things that people enjoyed at amusement parks back in that day was to wear a dress and step on an 'upward wind-blowing device.' So... only ladies, transvestites and rugged Scotsmen need apply, I suppose?

TBH, I've completely fabricated the lion's share of the titles here, altho if you can read Hungarian, you can already see almost all of them in these very same strips.

Eh, I don't want to make a long speech or anything, but there are some fairly brilliant design elements that Pusztai absolutely mastered, to the point that the potential gut-splitting humor element was... just, lesser on the list?

I.e., at a certain point, the sharpness or the bluntness of the joke didn't matter so much as the pure delivery. The eyes simply craved more, so to speak!

In any case, here's more Jucika-goodness, if you like:
https://nitter.net/JucikaInOrder