Muurainrahkaneva. Valtakasvit: Rub. cham., Arctostaph., Sph. fusc., Erioph. vag.

This is not a cartoon or caricature. The image is a black-and-white documentary photograph of a Finnish bog — a rahkaneva — taken in 1927 for the Finnish Forest Administration's Lesti management district. The vegetation catalogued in the original label includes cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), bearberry (Arctostaphylos), brown bog-moss (Sphagnum fuscum), and sheathed cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum). Initialed to O. O. J. T., it belongs to systematic natural-history survey photography, not the print-satire tradition descending from Hogarth, Gillray, or Daumier. No satirical target, caricature convention, or printmaking technique is present. Exhibiting this image in a comics-history context cannot be supported by its content.