Kurikka (magazine)

Kurikka was founded as a newspaper in Helsinki in 1904.^[1][2] It was affiliated with labor movement.^[1][3] Soon after its start it was redesigned as an illustrated satirical magazine.^[1]

Although it had a socialist stance, its cartoonists also included non-socialist figures, including Eric Vasström and Hjalmar Löfvin.^[1] The magazine employed the Old Helsinki slang in the satirical materials.^[4] Kurikka was blamed by its opponents for targeting the bourgeoisie.^[5] However, before the civil war in Finland in 1918 the magazine declared its enemies as bourgeoisie, capitalists and gentlemen.^[5] At the end of the civil war the magazine's affiliation changed in that Kurikka became closer to the Social Democratic Party in 1923 due to the split in the labor movement.^[5]

Kurikka enjoyed higher levels of circulation in the 1920s and 1930s.^[5] Although its competitors Fyren and Tuulispää sold only 3,000–4,000 copies, Kurikka managed to sell 20,000 copies.^[5] The magazine ceased publication in 1954.^[1]

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