Jucika

About

Jucika is the titular character of a Hungarian comic strip created by Pusztai Pál which ran in the middle of the 20th century. The character was depicted with a focus on her sexuality. Often she was drawn half-nude or in revealing clothing, and the comics focused on satirizing sexism. She began growing popular on image boards in late 2019, inspiring fan art.

Origin

Jucika was created by Pusztai Pál and circulated in Hungarian satirical newspaper Lúdas Matyi under the communist reign in Hungary in the mid-20th century.^[1] There is little available information about the comic itself; Hungarian literary critic Ákos Koczogh praised the character's figure and moral attitude, saying that her figure was attractive but she also expressed very human emotions and phenomena (example comic shown below).^[2]

Spread

The comic began gaining attention online in the late 2010s. On April 24th, 2018, Tumblr account lesserknownwaifus^[5] posted a compilation of Jucika drawings, gaining over 5,000 notes (shown below, left). On June 15th, 2018, Twitter user @Jigboi^[3] posted a comic asking where he could find more of them (shown below, right).

In mid-November 2019, the comics began growing popular on 4chan's /co/ board. One of the most popular early threads was posted November 14th,^[4] which featured a dump of several comics (example shown below). After the character grew popular on /co/, The comics then began spreading widely on Tumblr and Twitter. On Twitter, user @KonkyKong gained over 700 retweets and 5,300 likes posting fan art of the character (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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