History ComicStrip / Jucika

The mostly three-panel strips starred the titular character, a well endowed and free spirited young woman with short black hair, following her peculiar ways of going about her daily life and managing her seemingly [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands ever-changing occupations]], relying on visual gags over dialogue. As part of ''Ludas Matyi'''s boundary-pushing efforts during Hungary's mid-20th century cultural liberation and Pusztai's own fondness for playfully erotic humor, the comics contain a lot of {{fanservice}} -- Jucika would often appear nude or in revealing clothing, with many of the strips focusing on how she deals with the attention she [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl willingly]] or [[InnocentFanserviceGirl unwillingly]] draws to herself.\\

The mostly three-panel strips starred the titular character, a well endowed and free spirited young woman with short black hair, following her peculiar ways of going about her daily life and managing her seemingly [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands ever-changing occupations]], relying on visual gags over dialogue. As part of ''Ludas Matyi'''s boundary-pushing efforts during Hungary's mid-20th century cultural liberation and Pusztai's own fondness for playfully erotic humor, the comics contain a lot of {{fanservice}} -- Jucika would often appear nude or in revealing clothing, with many of the strips focusing on how she deals with the attention she willingly or unwillingly draws to herself.\\

* FanSequel: Alboart adopted the character in mid-2019 and revived it as a four-panel sex comedy (for obvious reasons, we can't hotlink it).

* OffModel: Jucika's early fluctuating design aside, colors were often misapplied and inconsistent between strips and at times between panels due to the unreliable printing presses. The final, posthumous strip, which the artist had only half completed and thus had to be finished by someone else, looks particularly off.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Sometimes Jucika's activities backfire on her in amusing but painful ways.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

An official collection of the '57-58 strips has been announced for a 2022 release, by the Hungarian publisher kilencedik.hu.

** Sadly, there was a real-life example of this in the person of Pál Pusztai's wife, who had infamously hated the comic and was jealous of her husband's fondness for Jucika. This wasn't helped by Pusztai's tendency to focus on Jucika's lewdness, having himself be photographed with a paper cutout of Jucika caressing his chin, and at one point even drawing himself getting kissed on the cheek by her -- all in the service of comedy, but her wife surely didn't find it amusing. There were even rumors that Jucika was inspired by a real woman, which was just fuel on her fire. Despite the introduction of a canonical husband for Jucika, Mrs. Pusztai didn't let go of her distaste and infamously threw all of the Jucika art she could get her hands on into a fire after his death, explaining why the comic hasn't been reprinted in higher quality ever since.

* SpiritualSuccessor: In the '80s, ''Ludas Matyi'''s readers were drawn to adult satirist István Krenner's unnamed caricatures and comics in a way not seen since ''Jucika'' had ended. In keeping with the demands of the time, his art was much more unabashedly explicit and low-brow, painting a grotesque, yet on-point image of social and political phenomena. His hyper-sexualized females, compared to whom Jucika seemed like child's play, were especially popular.

[[AuthorExistenceFailure With Pusztai's passing]], no further ''Jucika'' strips were published apart from one half-finished piece, and people close to the artist have alleged that all of the original comics were destroyed by Pusztai's widow who had hated Jucika. Poet Károly Borlóy adapted some of the strips into short, comedic poems for a planned 1970 book that also got cancelled due to the artist's death, though it finally received a rather overlooked posthumous release in 2009, under the title ''Fondorlatos Jucika'' (''Crafty Jucika'').

* FiftiesHair: Jucika's [[TwentiesBobHaircut 1920s style]] pixie cut is the most recognizable and (for the most part) unchanged feature.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Pusztai liked to push boundaries a lot with his jokes about nudity and sexuality. Reportedly, after he made a cartoon poking fun at his publishers' censorship, even they had a laugh at themselves. In particular, the ''Ludas Matyi'' artists at the time were forbidden from drawing female nipples -- Pusztai somehow still managed to slip a few in. In later years, blatantly crass nudity became such a staple of ''Ludas'' that Jucika's playful innocence feels tame in comparison. But keep in mind, though Hungary had more liberties than other Soviet-controlled states, oppression and censorship were still rampant. A comic like this was a big deal back then.

* ArtEvolution: Pusztai's art style improved with the years, with his figures becoming more rounded. Jucika's head in particular would grow or shrink a lot before settling on her finalized look. Her [[BlackBeadEyes dot eyes]] gave way to her characteristic and more expressive almond-shaped ones and her nose got simplified too.

* FiftiesHair: Jucika's [[TwentiesBobHaircut 1920s style]] pixie cut is the most recognizable and unchanged feature.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Is in full effect most of the time Jucika appears nude, though it's occasionally averted.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Pusztai liked to push boundaries a lot with his jokes about nudity and sexuality. Reportedly, after he made a cartoon poking fun at his publishers' censorship, they liked it so much that he was given a free pass to draw whatever he wanted. Some of the strips even showed cartoony nipples -- in later years, blatantly crass nudity became such a staple of ''Ludas Matyi'' that Jucika's playful innocence feels tame in comparison. But keep in mind, though Hungary had more liberties than other Soviet-controlled states, oppression and censorship were still rampant. A comic like this was a big deal back then.

* OffModel: Jucika's early fluctuating design aside, colors were often misapplied and inconsistent between strips and at times between panels due to the old printing presses.

[[AuthorExistenceFailure With Pusztai's passing]], no further ''Jucika'' strips were published. Poet Károly Borlóy adapted some of the strips into short, comedic poems for a planned 1970 book that also got cancelled due to the artist's death, though it finally received a rather overlooked posthumous release in 2009, under the title ''Fondorlatos Jucika'' (''Crafty Jucika''). Over time, the comic has mostly been forgotten as more explicit content became the norm, especially once other satirical adult papers launched in ''Ludas Matyi'''s place. The character, though, has [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece left her mark as a vintage symbol of this uneasy time in her country's history]]. Nine of the strips also made their way to the East German paper ''Freie Welt'', and 240 were sold to Canada (under the name ''Judy''). Various European publications also put out Jucika strips, China got a taste of her in 1989, and 2003 saw the release of a Jucika-centric Chinese compilation.

* TwentiesBobHaircut: Jucika's most recognizable and unchanged feature.