Summer Trousers

Since 1995, Jukka Tilsa’s Summer Trousers has been a singular, one-issue statement from the Finnish publisher Suuri Kurpitsa. Tilsa, writing and drawing the entire comic, crafts a quiet, surreal world where the titular garment becomes a lens for summer’s lazy, melancholic drift. Its enduring reputation rests on being a spare, perfectly contained gem of Finnish alternative comics, still in print and quietly influential.