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@imemi.bsky.social

Cartoonist. Associate Professor of Comics & Narrative Practice at @CCADedu. I make comics about dead people. πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€ [she/they]

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One last salmiakki ice cream bar at the airport ✨

02.12.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extremely charmed by this Finnish pharmacy logo.

29.11.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Distressed to learn that despite Thanksgiving (obviously) not being observed in Finland, Black Friday very much is πŸ¦…πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ’Έ

26.11.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this layout!!!

20.11.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you, Finnish readers!!!

Honored to be in the Top 5 best-selling books of last month at Finland's premier comic shop!

20.11.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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✨THIS WEEKEND✨
I will be hosting a live comics reading event at the Sarajakuvafestivaaliklubi, with performances by me and several other talented cartoonists. Saturday night of the Oulu Comics Festival, 8pm @ Snooker Time Bar. Free entry.

See you there??

11.11.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This youtube thumbnail has caused me psychic damage.

THEY WOJAKED MOOMIN πŸ’€

Wojak Moomin feels spiritually wrong.

05.11.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful to wake up on the other side of the world to some actual good news from back home ✨

05.11.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji is a political cartoonist and illustrator Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji is a political cartoonist and illustrator. Check out her work here at Comics Beat!

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist!

www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

05.11.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2100    πŸ” 594    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 42

That's a ton of detail to get into such a small space!

28.10.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had the same thought. Also how big are these "thumbnails"?

28.10.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm back on my bullshit~

The bullshit: trying to convince kidlit imprints that five years to illustrate a 200-page graphic novel is a fully reasonable and actually excellent time frame considering publishers neither offer artists health insurance nor pay enough for artists to live on.

12.08.2023 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

The Finns agree with you! I haven't tried it yet πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

12.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really feel like we're burying the lede here

12.10.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finnish pizza report: curious to hear Sicily's response on this

12.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey Oulu!! Come out and say hi at my exhibition opening at the Oulu Comics Center, tonight at 6pm!

10.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This brand name has sent me to an early grave πŸ’€

07.10.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Scene report: the Finnish children are also saying "skibidi ohio"

05.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly these numbers feel embarrassingly low, c'mon fam we can do better

04.10.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Finnish language edition of The Plunge!!

Huge thanks to Harri Filppa for translation, and to the Oulu Comics Center & Zum Teufel for publishing it. Official release this weekend at the Oulu Book Fair!

04.10.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shout out to the Finnish teens watching Powerpuff Girls on their phone at this bus stop

03.10.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The existence of this hat has provided me a crucial data point in identifying overlaps between Finnish and American cultures

01.10.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyone else is going about their evening because this is just REGULAR for them, meanwhile I am standing in the footpath, mouth agape, literally crying

30.09.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HOLY FUCK IT'S HAPPENING

30.09.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A soundtrack of charming woodland songbirds being piped into the bathrooms at the Helsinki airport. So far this country is extremely and whimsically on brand πŸ‘βœ”οΈ

30.09.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know this logically and yet still perform the skincare rituals, as they oddly still give me comfort? Not unlike any number of religious rituals meant to soothe the ever present anxiety of our inevitable demise.

22.09.2025 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BECOME A CARTOONIST, THEY SAID.

IT'LL BE FUN, THEY SAID.

08.07.2025 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 163    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
The spirograph guy from The Simpsons quietly working at his desk

The spirograph guy from The Simpsons quietly working at his desk

Everything: [horrific]
Me:

17.09.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just when you thought Sluggo couldn't possibly be more lit

16.09.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heartbreaking that the SPX vending machine no longer has animal crackers in it πŸ’”

14.09.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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