Finland 1996 Comic Strips - Centenary

• Issue date: 9th October 1996
• eight values in a gummed booklet pane depicting historic comic book / comic strip frames
• Designed by: Pentti Otsamo
• Printed by: Setec Oy
• Print Process: lithography
• pane format height 74mm x width 142mm
• Perforations: 13.25 x 13.25

booklet pane (4 x 2):
2.80FM ~ Professor Itikainen examining flowers through a glass, by Ilmari Vainio
2.80FM ~ Pekka Puupää (Peter Blockhead) at Post Office counter window, by Ola Fogelberg
2.80FM ~ Joonas the Artist by Veikko Savolainen
2.80FM ~ Posti Aune (motorcycle dispatch rider), from Mämmilä by Tarmo Koivisto
2.80FM ~ Rymy-Eetu smoking a pipe, by Erkki Tanttu
2.80FM ~ Kieku the cockerel writing letter, from Kieku and Kaiku by Asmo Alho
2.80FM ~ Pikku Risunen from Hyvissä naimisissa (Well Married) by Riita Uusitalo
2.80FM ~ Kiti from Vihrea Rapsodia (Green Rhapsody) by Kati Kovács

2.80Fm x 8

booklet cover

• back cover has background information about The Yellow Kid (USA, 1896, the first cartoon to regularly use speech balloons)