This month's issue of the Finnish magazine Hiidenkivi, published by the Finnish Literature Society, has an interesting item on the life and work of the Finnish-American newspaper artist Art (Arthur) Huhta (1902-1990), who collaborated with S. L. Huntley on Wild West-inspired comic strips like Mescal Ike and Lolly Gags, and later produced the artwork for Dinky Dinkerton and Wild Rose. Born to a Finnish emigrant couple, Huhta grew up in Chicago, where in the 1920s he worked in the studio of the animator Wally Carlson, helping to make the Disney-emulating Bad Bears cartoons.
Among other literary features, this issue of the magazine also contains a survey of the new Finnish "men's poetry", a study of witches in children's literature, and an essay on Eemil Arvi Saarimaa (1888-1866), the philologist and folklorist who compiled and edited the early collected works of Aleksis Kivi and Minna Canth.
