History ComicStrip / Jucika

* VagueAge: Jucika is youthful and often childlike, yet clearly old enough to marry, have an assortment of jobs, own an apartment, smoke, drink, vote or flirt with slightly older men, but her exact age is unclear in the comic itself. Outside the strips, she's suggested to be 20. One early strip referenced a newspaper clipping of a dating ad about a 20 year-old girl. Three years later, a series of travelogue cartoons published separately from the comic still implied that as her age. Meanwhile a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlNkj1H98Q meta news report]] dedicated to her 5th anniversary at ''Ludas Matyi'' claimed she was 5 year-old adult character.

''Jucika''[[note]]pronounced "YU-tzi-ka", meaning "Lil' Judy" or "Lil' Julie"[[/note]] was a humorous Hungarian comic strip created by cartoonist Pál Pusztai which ran from 1957 up until the author's death in 1970. Originally circulated in the social magazine ''Érdekes Újság'', it moved to the country's sole officially sanctioned satirical newspaper ''Ludas Matyi''[[note]]named after, but not to be confused with, the FolkHero protagonist of the narrative poem ''Literature/LuasMatyi''[[/note]] in 1959, where it became an iconic part of Socialist era pop culture.

''Jucika''[[note]]pronounced "YU-tzi-ka", meaning "Lil' Judy" or "Lil' Julie"[[/note]] was a humorous Hungarian comic strip created by cartoonist Pál Pusztai which ran from 1957 up until the author's death in 1970. Originally circulated in the social magazine ''Érdekes Újság'', it moved to the country's sole officially sanctioned satirical newspaper ''Ludas Matyi'' in 1959, where it became an iconic part of Socialist era pop culture.

[[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 more were published in Canada (under the name ''Judy'') and Switzerland as well.

* VagueAge: Jucika is youthful and often childlike, but clearly old enough to marry, have an assortment of jobs, have an apartment, smoke, drink, vote or flirt with slightly older men, but her exact age is unclear in the comic itself. Outside the strips, she's suggested to be 20. One early strip referenced a newspaper clipping of a dating ad about a 20 year-old girl. Three years later, a series of travelogue cartoons published separately from the comic still stated that to be her age. Meanwhile a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlNkj1H98Q meta news report]] dedicated to her 5th anniversary at ''Ludas Matyi'' claimed she was 5 year-old adult character.

* DrivenToSuicide: Jucika [[https://img.booru.org/jucika//images/1/b06c28b0434860ab034b67a335a4d2a79a171362.png saves a man trying to drown himself]] through her joyous attitude and good looks.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: While she's not adverse to being sexualized, Jucika will only do so under her own terms.

[[caption-width-right:350:Jucika and her creator, Pusztai Pál]]

* CrossOver: In one celebratory cartoon showcasing ''Ludas Matyi'''s different cartoonists, Jucika met the eponymous stars of Pusztai's lesser known political series ''Ivan and Joe''.

* LiveActionAdaptation: Actress [[https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Gabi Gabi Magda]] briefly plaid Jucika in a variety show from 1963.

The 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.\\

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin is much more realistically drawn than other characters when Jucika meets him.

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

[[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''.

* ArtEvolution: Pál's art style improved with the years, with character's heads becoming smaller and their figures more rounded.
* AshFace: Jucika ends with one after greeting a train engineer [[https://img.booru.org/jucika//images/1/f138ec98d33754112471067a722ef49afe8d8e48.png as he's driving his steam train under the bridge she's on]].

* SilenceIsGolden: None of the strips have any dialogue or sound effects, with the only text appearing on signs and such.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: While she's not adverse to to being sexualized, Jucika will only do so under her own terms.

[[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 the East German paper ''Freie Welt''.

''Jucika''[[note]]pronounced "YU-tzi-ka", meaning "Lil' Judy" or "Lil' Julie"[[/note]] was a humorous Hungarian comic strip created by cartoonist Pusztai Pál which ran from 1957 up until the author's death in 1970. Originally circulated in the social magazine ''Érdekes Újság'', it moved to the country's sole officially sanctioned satirical newspaper ''Ludas Matyi'' in 1959, where it became an iconic part of Socialist era pop culture.

The 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 Pál'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.\\

[[AuthorExistenceFailure With Pál's passing]], no further ''Jucika'' strips were published, and without any reprints or collections, 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]].

[[AuthorExistenceFailure With Pál's passing]], the no further ''Jucika'' strips were published, and without any reprints or collections, 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]].

''Jucika'' is a Hungarian comic strip created by Pusztai Pál and circulated in Hungarian satirical newspaper Lúdas Matyi under the communist reign in Hungary in the mid-20th century.

It starred the titular character, a well-endowed woman with short black hair, following her daily life with a focus on her sexuality. Often she was drawn half-nude or in revealing clothing, and the comics focused on satirizing sexism.