Here in the United States, we view winter as a drudgery to withstand. In Finland and other Nordic countries, winter is relished and enjoyed, with lots of sledding, coffee and trips to the sauna. This ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The winner of the Funniest Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly rotund stand-up comic from Finland who boasts he has hit on the perfect solution to the ...

The author of the comic series "Finnish Nightmares", Karoliina Korhonen, was awarded the first-ever Lempi Prize for online comic artist achievement on Saturday at the Arctic Comic Centre’s 35th annual ...

In this Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 photo provided by The Laugh Factory, the five finalists and one alternate in an international search to find the world's funniest person pose after being selected ...

A simply drawn figure called Matti with a blue and white hat is the protagonist of a new Finnish comic whose popularity has soared in a matter of days. Finnish Nightmares is a strip by Kuopio-born ...

Where: Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. Some entertainers are less than thrilled about conducting interviews. However, Finnish comic Ismo Leikola makes the best of it. “Can you believe I came ...

Beyond the Moomins, the bulky hippo-like creatures that are one of Finland's best-loved cultural exports, its bumper comic book market remains largely unexplored abroad, but publishers are trying to ...

Since 1999, New York Review of Books Classics has been doing for books – from W.H. Auden’s poems to Edmund Wilson’s classic study of communism, ‘To the Finland Station’ -ÿwhat the Criterion Collection ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The winner of the Funniest Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly rotund stand-up comic from Finland who boasts he has hit on the perfect solution to the planet ...