Editing Mämmilä

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'''''Mämmilä''''' is a full-page comic strip by [[Finland|Finnish]] cartoonist [[Tarmo Koivisto]] and co-written by [[Hannu Virtanen]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Life on the line |url=http://neba.finlit.fi/booksfromfinland/bff/402/tolvanen.html |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=neba.finlit.fi}}</ref>

Mämmilä is a fictional small country [[municipality]], supposedly in the [[Tavastia (historical province)|Häme]] region, and was originally modeled on the municipality of [[Orivesi]]. The cartoon depicted various contemporary issues in Finnish life, from various social changes to the coming of [[Africa]]n [[refugee]]s and membership in the [[European Union]]. The municipality has numerous colorful characters, from local political leaders and potentates to Varpu-Viljami (local [[dowsing|dowser]]) and Mohammed al-Zomal ([[Somalia]]n refugee), nicknamed "Mukku" after his pronunciation of the Finnish word "[[kalakukko|muikkukukko]]".

Unusually for comic strips, the storyline happens in real time, and the characters in ''Mämmilä'' age normally, at the same pace as the comic strip in real life. For example, a girl called Sari was born in the comic in 1980, and is now an adult punk-style girl.

The strip was originally published 1974 in a [[Sweden Finns|Swedish-Finnish]] magazine, ''[[Suomen Sanoma]]'' (Finnish News) in Sweden. The magazine was published only a couple of times per year, so the strip moved to Finnish magazine called ''[[Me (magazine)|Me]]'' (We) in 1976. In 1983, ''[[Helsingin Sanomat]]'' began its monthly magazine, and ''Mämmilä'' moved in there. ''HS'' dropped the strip after 13 years, because the readers wanted a strip about life in [[Helsinki]]. Tarmo Koivisto still draws ''[[Tää kaupunki]]'' (''This city'') strip, written by various ''HS'' journalists.

In 2002, Tarmo Koivisto published a comic album ''WWW.MAMMILA.FI'' in which the [[Internet]] and shady business practices come to Mämmilä. It was under work for five years.

In late 2006, ''[[Suomen Kuvalehti]]'', a weekly magazine wanted to publish ''Mämmilä''. Because Koivisto has had many pages done for the next album after 2002, the storyline is not in real time right now, but eventually it will be.

==Other places==
Mämmilä is also a real-life village in [[Pello]], [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]], {{coord|66|49|N|24|0|E}}.
==References==
* Invitation in [[Suomen kuvalehti]] 46/2006, ''Finnish''
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==Further reading==
''Mämmilä'' [http://sarjakuvat.eurocomics.info/mammila.html eurocomis.info]

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