The Finnish Comic Society has honoured the creator of Kapteeni Kuolio, Pekka Manninen the wooden hat. But what is a wooden hat?
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The Finnish Comics Society has decided to award the Puupäähattu recognition award to cartoonist and doctor of education Pekka A. Manninen (b. 1959).
Manninen has always been interested in cartoons that move in the borderlands of darkness and especially in intentionally or unintentionally parodic stories. Folkloric, mythical characters started to appear already in his early comics. They were initially published as a comic for NonStop's readers and in Sarjainfo, and soon Manninen's pen mark could be seen in numerous small and large publications. Your first self-published book, Milan's miracle, was published in 1981. Inspiration was given, for example, by superhero comics freely published in Finnish, such as Man of Steel and the horror magazine Shokki. Manninen's own favorite character is Doctor Strange, who holds the Marvel universe together.
Manninen joined the Tampere comics club in its early stages, and he has been the main editor of the club's most important product, the Sarjari magazine, since 1982. It is the only regularly published Finnish comics magazine. The theses for the University of Tampere were about cartoons, and Manninen received his doctorate in education in 1995. His dissertation Vatarinna äälineistö: About the meaning of cartoon hobby was Finland's first dissertation about cartoons.
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In his research, Manninen shows how children and young people can use cartoons to create their own language of expression, for example by parodying the prevailing reality. At the same time, adults have often condemned cartoons in their lack of understanding as a tool that impoverishes language and other expressive skills. Since 1976, more than 5,000 comic pages drawn by Mannen in a rough style have been published.
His long-standing characters include the scientific militia Igor Motor, the future cyborg policeman Teräslilja, and Captain Death, who protects his hometown from everything supernatural.
The most active of these are Teräslilija, which appears in Tähtivaeltaja magazine. Täräslijja literally blows up disgusting fashion phenomena and nauseating celebrities.
Captain Kuolio, a regular character of Sarjari magazine, also has his own album series, where the magical and mystical hidden reality of Tampere is revealed. Kuolio is a schizophrenic in civilian life, sick pensioner Veikko Eloranta. The character sees what so-called normal people don't, even though things are happening right in front of their eyes.
In addition to his own drawing work, Manninen teaches comics at a visual art school for children and young people, raising new artists to understand the world of screens. The slanted perspective of Manninen's cartoons corrects our views on folklore, history, and current reality as well.
Pekka Allan Manninen
b. 1959, Ruutana (Kangasala)
Doctor of Education 1995, University of Tampere
Teacher, Sara Hildén Academy School of Fine Arts
Illustrator, SANARIS Oy
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