Pál Pusztai
Pal Pusztai | |
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| File:Pál Pusztai, 1964.png Pál Pusztai with his character Juckia, 1964, the only known photo of him | |
| Born | September 4, 1919 |
| Died | September 11, 1970 (aged 51) |
| Occupation(s) | cartoonist, illustrator |
Pál Pusztai (Template:Lang-hu; September 4, 1919 - September 11, 1970) was a Hungarian graphic artist and cartoonist.
Life
He worked as an officer of the Hungarian State Railways, where he made public service drawings and posters. Later he switched to advertising graphics.[1] In 1955, he published his first newspaper cartoons, displaying distinctive style features. Pusztai's clear, understandable and well-composed drawing style made him one of the most significant Hungarian artists of the genre. From 1959 he worked as a regular artist for the magazine Ludas Matyi. There, he authored a series of military-themed cartoon titled Iván és Joe (lit. 'Ivan and Joe'), featuring two characters, a Soviet and an American soldier. In keeping with the communist-sympathetic Hungary, Ivan was depicted as the wiser and more prudent of the two.
His longest-running comic strip series (1957- 1970) was Jucika , featuring a young, independent woman, frequently in risqué situations.[2]
For his independent cartoon album (1963) Pál Somogyi wrote a preface. His cartoons have been published in international publications, and have been featured in international cartoon exhibitions and biennials, which have been internationally recognized. As an external collaborator he was engaged in several magazines, and his cartoons could be seen, among others, in the Workers' Magazine, Country-World, Women's Magazine, Illustrated Hungary, Füles. He also made advertising drawings, postcards, (a series of military cartoon postcards, still in circulation for many years after his death), card calendars, and designed educational and movie posters. He signed as Pusztai.
Internet popularity of his character Jucika
Popularity of Jucika began in the early 2010's on image boards, it wasn't until on June 5, 2018 when someone tweeted if they can have more Jucika comics. It gained popularity in November 2019, when multiple people tweeted about the character and how much hey "fell in love with her" and one called her a waifu. Multiple pieces of parody comics and fan art are still being made to this day, and the most infamous one was made by Max Gilardi, where the character is having unprotected sex only to be diagnosed from a doctor to have AIDS, almost a satirical commentary on the sexual nature. Some of the fan art is sexual, due to the risqué nature of the comics, and a whole entire website is dedicated to Jucika fanart called Jucika Booru. [3][4][5][6]
References
- ^ https://artportal.hu/lexikon-muvesz/pusztai-pal-5992/
- ^ "New exhibition shows Hungarian women in Socialist advertising". welovebudapest.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ "Jucika- Know Your Meme". Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ Gilardi, Max (2020-03-01). "Max G on Twitter: Haha lemme tell ya, CLASSIC Jucika". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ "pusztai_pál "Jucika"-Sexy comic strip from Hungary, a socialist country 60's". Togetter. 2019-11-16. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ "Jucika Booru". Retrieved 2020-04-06.
External links
- Pál Pusztai at IMDb
- Pál Pusztai at Budapest Poster Gallery
- Fehéri, Tamás (December 1964). "Jucika a Filmhíradóban" [Jucika in the Filmhíradó]. Magyar Filmhíradó [Hungarian newsreel] (in Hungarian). No. 53. Budapest Filmstúdió. Retrieved 19 March 2020 – via Filmhíradók Online.