Nemi: "So you don't think playing 'hard to get' will work after this?"
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Nemi is a Norwegian comic strip, written and drawn by Lise Myhre.
It made its first appearance in 1997 under the title Den svarte siden ("the Black Side" or "the Black Page").
At that time it was a very dark cartoon about the Heavy and Dark metal subcultures, but Myhre has turned it brighter with the years, although she still frequently publishes strips about serious issues, especially in the larger Saturday panels.
The strip is now named Nemi, after the protagonist, and is the second most popular comic strip in Norway, behind Pondus...
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Main characters
Nemi Montoya
A woman about 25 years old, Nemi always wears black clothes, has very pale skin, and very little in common with most of the rest of the world.
She was named after Lake Nemi and Inigo Montoya, a character in Lise Myhre's favourite film, The Princess Bride.
It underlines Nemi's "outsider" status within Norwegian society and suggests that she may not be a natural brunette...
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Character
Nemi is a "tough girl" with an attitude, is not afraid to speak her mind and more often than not in confrontational ways: blunt rejections of would-be one-night stands at the pub are not uncommon.
At the same time, she can be very sensitive: she is apparently incapable of killing anything, including spiders, of which she is very fond.
She can also feel very alone at times.
She is afraid of growing up, and loathes blonde bimbos...
Her fear of growing up is reflected in her appeal to readers through her child-like qualities and innocence, as well as her sense of fun.
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Lifestyle
She listens to heavy metal music, and has a number of friends in those subcultures who dress likewise.
She is often unemployed or employed in temporary jobs, where she often gets fired for her temper (such as beating a customer who asked for a CD of Christina Aguilera for her daughter, instead of the Alice Cooper CD Nemi had suggested).
She is fond of vacationing in warmer countries, but when at the beach she uses top-grade sunblock cream to avoid tanning, which would severely damage her carefully-cultivated surface image.
Nemi suffers from strong allergic reactions and has advocated exterminating birch trees, on the grounds that "we kill off thousands of species every day anyway". **
She likes to visit the pub, often with her friend Cyan*, where she often gets drunk.
Alcoholism is however not a main theme of the comic...
Nemi's apartment is almost always a mess, and she has an uncontrollable passion for chocolate
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*Cyan means blue or blue/green & of course she has blue hair...
** "exterminating birch trees" - due to strong allergic reactions - this is why I like her, I can relate...because it's happened to me this year & can't imagine living here in Norway with a seasonal allergy every time these trees (all over the countryside mind you) happen to bloom--can I be gone the whole time of their pollen season next year?! hmmm...hope so?! :o(
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Published in newspapers, every day or 2nd day (for translation...)
And then in a monthly comic book...
Album Series is in Books by Titan Books: Nemi 2007, Nemi I 2008, Nemi II 2009
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Note: all of the above borrowed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_(comic_strip)
Click on her name or if that link doesn't work go to more Wikipedia & a Wiki Bio of her at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Myhre
For example: She is married to musician ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), and they have a son, Storm, born 2007
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Also see more Nemi comic strips on this link: http://www.norway.org.uk/culture/misc/oldnemi.htm
from Norway.org webpage
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