and realistic: Pekka Puupää and other characters were caricatures, but the settings were realistically and often very carefully drawn, offering a peephole into the early 20th century Finnish rural life. Pekka Puupää wasn't the first Finnish comic series, but it was the first significant one and at the same time a pioneer. In the 1930s, albums composed of the newspaper strips sold more than any other Finnish literature. After Ola Fogelberg's death in 1952 his daughter, Toto Fogelberg-Kaila, continued the comic until 1975. The Puupää hat award The Finnish Comics Society started to award distinguished comic artists with the Puupää hat, which is a copy of Pekka Puupää's oblong hat. The first hat was awarded to Toto Fogelberg-Kaila in 1972. See also Pekka and Pätkä, a line of movies based on Fogeli's characters Pekka Puupää, the first film from 1953 directed by Ville Salminen Finnish comic strips 1925 comics debuts 1975 comics endings Comic strip duos Humor comics Text comics Comics set in Finland Puupää, Pekka Comics adapted into films Puupää, Pekka Puupää, Pekka