by political party category. They were: A fat priest with a military helmet on his head represented the National Coalition Party. The helmet was removed in the 1990s and replaced with a top hat. A skinny worker dressed in an overall represented the Social Democratic Party of Finland. A fat, red-nosed yokel with stubble in ragged clothes and a scarf around the neck represented the Communist Party of Finland. A fat landlord/farmer represented the Agrarian Union and when it changed its name to Centre Party, he drew the character with collared shirt, tie and a fedora hat. Small parties were drawn with short and skinny characters. The People's Party (liberals) were drawn with a ridiculously exaggerated white collar. The Swedish People's Party was a small snob with a moustache, in a suit and with a bowler hat. The Christian Party was represented by a small man in black körtti suit. Veikko Vennamo himself often represented his own party, as did Emil Skog and Aarre Simonen. Initially they were drawn with realistic proportions, but then they became exaggerated into cartoonish proportions. He also used the same motifs to draw a variety of characters; for example, the skinny guy and the fat guy in the city. A top hat over a character used to refer to the incumbent cabinet and ministers. One cartoon, based on Ilya Repin's painting Barge Haulers on the Volga, created an international hubbub in 1958: Nikita Khrushchev, on the barge pulled by Eastern bloc countries, is shouting "Imperialists!" to the US and UK on the shore. Suomalainen and the newspapers editor-in-chief Janne Virkkunen had an quarrel in 1991, after Helsingin Sanomat refused to publish Kari's cartoons criticizing Somali refugees, because they were considered to be too racist. He kept on drawing even after that and his cartoons were published in several minor Finnish newspapers on a more irregular basis. A film, Kari ja hänen 9 presidenttiään, was made by documentary filmmaker Juho Gartz in 1994. Suomalainen died in 1999 at the age of 78. References 1920 births 1999 deaths Artists from Helsinki Finnish cartoonists Finnish humorists Finnish editorial cartoonists Finnish military personnel of World War II