In my late teens I got intensely into seinen and more serious, bloody titles, like Samura’s Blade of the Immortal and Takami’s & Taguchi’s Battle Royale. I’d grab copies of Dragonball and Sailor Moon where I could get them and be totally immersed in the new, different feeling world in them.
I also got into manga during the same time, back when it wasn’t a thing in Finland but was starting to be in France and Germany. When I was in my teens, my family visited France, where I would sit in comic book shops and get my hands on Barbucci & Canepa’s Skydoll and Loisel’s Peter Pan, and honestly so many other amazing artists that I don’t know the names of, because I’d buy one volume in French and bring it home, or speed-flip through it at the shop, and have no way of accessing it again before Google was properly a thing. I read it weekly as a kid, and once I found my grandparents’ archives of old issues of Asterix & Obelix and Lucky Luke, I consumed through all of them, too.
Donald Duck is very popular here, it sells around 500,000 copies weekly – and this is a country of 5.6 million people. I always like to start by asking people, how did you come to comics?įinnish kids get weaned up on comics.
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