Google translate says “They’re finally heating up at Jucika’s”, but I edited it to sound more natural.
(edit: additional context in this comment below - https://sopuli.xyz/comment/23669088 - the Google translation is likely more accurate)
As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
So some context. In communist era Hungary, a lot of the population lived - and still lives - in big prefab apartment buildings that run off central heating.
In the winter as it was getting colder, the heating would get turned on at the same time for the whole district if not the city.
The “they” in “they are finally heating at Jucika” is the government. It’s a hot topic every year when it gets turned on, as the people pay a flat rate for warmth.
Ohh, that makes the Google translation make a lot more sense.
Happy to have helped.
Means a lot to have one’s culture appreciated.
I’m honestly enjoying learning a bit about Hungary this way. The only thing I knew about it previously was that Judit Polgar and her sisters (famous chess prodigies) were from there.
Did she light her apartment on fire?
I assumed she was just so thrilled that it got warmer that she didn’t question why, but now I wonder how far she was willing to go…
Well in the second panel I see it as her putting on the clothes not taking them off. Looks like she got sick of being cold and went out to do something about it.
I am not 100% sure guess only the artist could tell us for sure.
She was wearing those clothes in the first panel. Shewas taking them off. You can see her kicking off her boot.
I think she assumed her radiator was working again but her building was actually on fire.
Good catch yeah think your right. With the boot it’s 100% taking off clothes.
In the second panel the ice on the heater and ceiling has already thawed.
Yeah be nice if we had a panel with he looking confused at the heater before the panel of her taking off her clothes. But I see it now.
The three panels work just fine for this.
Panel 1: cold breath , bundled up, ice inside
Panel 2: no ice, winter clothes off
Panel 3: even less clothing, fire, firefighter
Maybe it’s just because I’ve seen so much of obvious USSR propaganda in contrast, but I wonder if making strips like this could get you in some trouble in a Soviet state.
I’m reading up on it now, and this comic ran during Hungary’s communist era in “Lúdas Matyi”, the only state-approved satirical magazine. It was likely only allowed to exist so long as it wasn’t subversive and avoided politics.
However, it does sometimes depict hardships of the time, so people now seem to be split on whether this was subtle criticism or an attempt to make light of it.
or an attempt to make light of it.
I see what you did there.
I’ve seen so much of obvious USSR propaganda in contrast
There’s no question that such was a huge issue for any creative-type working within that kind of framework. If you’re familiar with Hergé’s story, we also have examples of that backfiring heavily.
Nah, the joke here isn’t that there’s no heating, it’s that she thinks it’s warm because the heating was finally turned on.
Old commie blocks commonly have central heating, powered and managed at city level. Works fine, except you don’t get to pick when it comes on, the city as a whole does, so every winter you get a city-wide argument over the thermostat.
Whoever she is, she’s built right.
This one has a different style than the usual ones, its more “filled up” or idk how to say it. Still dig it.
