Style combination · Pairs well
O Pasquim Satirical Press × Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
Another cartoonist-led weekly where satire and local idiom carry political commentary under pressure.
Mix them and make something O Pasquim Satirical Press Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
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What each style brings
Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.
O Pasquim Satirical Press Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines (Gırgır to Uykusuz)
- Type from Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
- Colour from O Pasquim Satirical Press
- Form from Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
- Composition from Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
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O Pasquim Satirical Press avoids framed panels: this is where the two pull against each other.
- Surface from O Pasquim Satirical Press
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The type
Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.
Display · Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
Loud
Londrina Solid, standing in for Hand-lettered capitals in speech balloons and caption blocks, with the Turkish İ, Ş, Ğ and Ç drawn in (the Uykusuz cover of 12 November 2008, the Gırgır cover of 10 August 2011)
Text · O Pasquim Satirical Press
A weekly satirical tabloid from Rio de Janeiro that made cartoonists co-editors: hand-lettered headlines, cartum and caricature, and long interview and chronicle columns on one dense newsprint page. Unlike American underground comix it is a newspaper, with irony and Rio vernacular as cover under military censorship. Its staff were arrested in 1970 and the paper bombed; copying its look is not sharing its risk, nor a decorative retro skin.
Archivo; O Pasquim Satirical Press used Hand-lettered mastheads and headlines and Cartoonists' own hand lettering
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The colours
The ground and leading colours come from O Pasquim Satirical Press, with a counter-accent from Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.
O Pasquim Satirical Press Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines (Gırgır to Uykusuz)
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#e8e0ccground · 36% -
#1a1a1aink · 14% -
#8a8575accent · 18% -
#d6262baccent · 14% -
#2f5ea8accent · 10% -
#e8b48caccent · 8%
As CSS
:root {
--ground: #e8e0cc;
--ink: #1a1a1a;
--accent-1: #8a8575;
--accent-2: #d6262b;
--accent-3: #2f5ea8;
--accent-4: #e8b48c;
--font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
--font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}Use it with care
Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines (Gırgır to Uykusuz): Avanak Avni, Penguen's penguin trying to fly, Uykusuz's man in a vest and the magazines' mastheads belong to their makers and publishers: draw your own characters and masthead, never ask an image model for a named cartoonist's hand or a real magazine's cover, and do not present a generated cover as an issue of Gırgır, LeMan, Penguen or Uykusuz. This satire has cost its makers dearly (Penguen's Bahadır Baruter faced a one-year prison sentence in 2011 over words drawn on a mosque wall, and LeMan's editors were detained in 2025 over a cartoon read as depicting the Prophet Muhammad), and it carried its own prejudices: Uykusuz and Gırgır caricatures that turned Erdoğan into Obama drew their humour from exaggerating Obama's racial features (Çetintaş 2023), and gag strips such as Otisabi on Uykusuz's back cover made comedy of a man's manipulative seduction of women, which a 2026 study reads as objectifying them, even as it finds the strips also critique and subvert those norms. Do not reproduce either. Aim the satire at power and its pomposity, not at faith, ethnicity, gender or the bodies of the powerless: the swollen head belongs to the leader. Remember too that caricaturing a Turkish head of state has repeatedly brought lawsuits.
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The two styles
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More combinations
With O Pasquim Satirical Press
- International Typographic Style Contrasts · A rigid grid and neutral type are the opposite of Pasquim's dense, hand-lettered, cartoon-filled page.
- Underground Comix Pairs well · Share the hand-drawn, irreverent cartoon line, but borrow Pasquim's column-and-interview newspaper page for a more journalistic result.
- Tropicália Graphic Design Pairs well · A contemporary Brazilian counterculture; Tropicália's colour and collage can lift Pasquim's monochrome page.
- Il Male Newspaper-Forgery Satire Pairs well · Another satirical newspaper with cartoons; Il Male differs by forging real papers' front pages rather than publishing an original tabloid.
With Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines
- Escuela Bruguera (Spanish Humour Comics) Contrasts · Both are weekly humour magazines from a stable of cartoonists, with grotesque caricature in hand-lettered panels. Bruguera kept its satire of manners under children's slapstick for Franco's censors; the Turkish weeklies put named politicians on the cover every week and took the lawsuits that followed.
- Arab Independent Comics (Samandal, TokTok, Lab619, Skefkef) Contrasts · Both are collectives' magazines that satirise power in street dialect and have been taken to court for it. The Arab magazines are small art-comics anthologies with no house style and no topical cover; the Turkish weeklies were mass newsstand titles built around one cover caricature of the week's news.
- ROSTA Windows Contrasts · Both turn the day's political news into hand-lettered satirical drawings for a mass audience. ROSTA stencilled numbered frames as agitation for the new state; the Turkish weeklies caricatured whoever held power, from Özal to Erdoğan, and were banned or sued for it.
- American Four-Colour Comic Book (Golden to Bronze Age) Contrasts · Both lettered balloons by hand in capitals over cartoon figures for the newsstand, and Gırgır took its balloons and photomontage from Mad, which began in 1952 as Harvey Kurtzman's comic book for EC. The American comic book told serial adventures in four-colour letterpress; the Turkish weeklies built each issue around one topical caricature of the week's politics, then an anthology of signed gag corners.
- Turkish Modernist Poster & Graphic Design Contrasts · Same city, same decades, opposite density: Istanbul's poster designers reduced a play or film to one flat idea on an open field, while the humour weeklies packed a cover with a caricature, balloons, headline band and price box. Borrow the poster's single idea to calm a crowded cover.
- Arab Children's Comic Magazines (Samir to Majid) Contrasts · The same weekly cartoon-magazine machine aimed at adults and at power: its swollen caricature and political covers show what the children's weeklies kept out.
- Simplicissimus Satirical Style (Munich) Contrasts · A later weekly humour magazine of the same satirical stance: Gırgır, Penguen and Uykusuz pack covers with speech balloons, comic strips and colour; Simplicissimus gives one framed drawing and one caption.
- Underground Comix Contrasts · Both learned from Mad and crowd hand-lettered caricature into the panel, but the Istanbul weeklies are mass-circulation collective magazines whose cover lampoons the week's politics, while comix are self-published books whose shock is sex, drugs and taboo.