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'''''Rocky''''' is a Swedish autobiographical [[Underground Comics|underground comic]] created by Martin Kellerman. Mostly autobiographical, it follows [[Author Avatar]] '''Rocky''', a [[Funny Animal]] dog, and his slacker friends, as they deal with relationships and maturity (often the lack there of), hang out at bars and coffee houses and have unusual escapades and often-embarrassing [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex|one-night stands]] at music festivals and [[Hip Hop]] concerts. Artistic influences include Mats Jonsson, [[American Splendor|Harvey Pekar]], [[Robert Crumb]] and Peter Bagge, and numerous [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to (usually American) rappers, TV shows and movies are sprinkled throughout the comics. As time time passed (and Kellerman got a substantially more stable life situation), the theme of the comic gradually shifted from booze-and-sex-fueled misadventures to [[Better Than It Sounds|coffee-fueled conversations about life, relationships and pop culture]].
Kellerman created the comic after his then-girlfriend broke up with him and he got fired from a pornographic magazine for [[Dude, Not Funny|going too far]]. Initially drawn for the amusement of himself and his fans, he shopped it around publishers who rejected it either because of the sex and language, or because they claimed it was a ripoff of ''[[Fritz the Cat (comics)|Fritz the Cat]]''. The few papers that did run ''Rocky'' got numerous complaints because of its content, but Kellerman ended up publishing several volumes himself that sold really well; he also publishes a magazine featuring ''Rocky'' comics, album reviews and interviews with popular rappers. The comic was so successful in Sweden that it was eventually translated by Fantagraphics Books, who published two volumes of translated comics, and it was briefly published in the American version of ''Metro'', the Swedish free newspaper that typically published ''Rocky'' in its country of origin. But, as in Sweden, it got canned for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. In direct contrast to the controversial reaction ''Rocky'' received from newspaper readers, some underground cartoonists considered ''Rocky'' to be too mainstream.
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* [[Catgirl]]: A few of Rocky's girlfriends are this. As noted below, the entire cast is human, but with animal heads.
* [[Cultural Translation]]: Despite Denmark and Sweden being neighboring countries, the Danish translation of the comic have changed quite a few things, starting with moving the setting from Stockholm to the neighborhood Vesterbro in Copenhagen. The Danish translator explained that a direct translation would have been "more anthropologically interesting than actually funny."
** When it was released in English speaking countries, the translator changed some Swede-specific references to make certain jokes more accessible to English speaking audiences (example below), and deleted other comics that English speaking audiences would find incomprehensible. Luckily, since the comic already included references to a number of things English audiences are already familiar with (see [[
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Rocky is asked to come on a Swedish music video channel, but since he doesn't know any current pop music, he asks a friend about playing some obscure hip hop music video. The final panel has the friend laughing as he watches Rocky introduce a video by Vengaboys.
** In the English translation, the reference is changed to [[No Doubt]].
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