Nyrok City
Nyrok City is a colour comic strip drawn by the Finnish artist Mauri Kunnas from 1975 to 1986, published in the youth magazines Intro, Help! and Suosikki. The first story in the comic was Esittely ("introduction"), published in Intro issue 11 in November 1975. Intro was published twelve times per year. The last Nyrok City story One More Time: Nyrok City was published in Suosikki in July 1986. Kunnas was awarded the "Puupäähattu" award for Nyrok City by the Finnish Comics Society on 4 June 1981. The strip is about the world of popular culture and various Finnish and foreign bands, with their names comically twisted. Even though Nyrok City was originally only published in magazines, the entire run was later published in collections Nyrok City Kollektion 1 (1984), Nyrok City Kollektion 2 (1993) and The best & wörst of Nyrok City (2000). Strips similar to Nyrok City have also been published in the collections Nyrok Daily News Presents: Kotlant Jaarti (1982) and Mac Moose ja Jagge Migreenin tapaus (1986). Jagge Migreeni is a parody of Mick Jagger. Language plays a prominent part in the Nyrok City strips. Most of the characters speak in a similar manner. The speech of