Virosta, anteeksi että englanniksi, mutta jos yrittäisin kirjoittaa suomeksi, se todennäköisesti kuulostaisi hyvin hauskalta for all the wrong reasons...
for starters, Urmas Nemvalts is no Juba... to be more exact, "Mürakarud" is crap, and as such, best ignored. it only excists because the owners of the newspaper where Nemvalts works feel like he should do more than just the editorial cartoons to earn his pay, not because anyone actually likes or reads that lame, boring, unfunny strip.
Alar Pikkorainen's strip in Eesti Ekspress is called "Kosmosemutid" ("Kosmosen eukot", "Kosmiset eukot" tai jotakin). it's garish on purpose and a bit too repetitive for my taste, but overall, not bad.
the best newspaper strip however is still "Pesakond" by Madis Ots (unfortunately looks like the "pesakond online" homepage is down as I'm typing this), but it's been a while since it was last published in papers. there might still be some Pesakond books in shops though. it's fresh, rude, hilarious, & not easily translatable. certainly among the very best of Estonian comics alongside with Priit Pärn's
"Tagurpidi" (originally published in 1980. I'm afraid the 2005 hardcover reprint is all sold out by now - but there's a complete scan at that address).
the rest of the comics situation in Estonia is simple: almost nothing is ever translated from other languages (except international newspaper strips & some kiddie stuff) and almost nothing local (besides the occasional newspaper strip collections) is ever published, because the publishers believe there is no market demand and won't take the risk. so my guess is there won't be any local graphic novels to talk about anytime soon, although a couple of artists featured at koomiks.ee certainly deserve their own albums. and as it's very hard to get anything into print, the number of active & reasonably skilled comics artists is also very small... even saying "around 10" sounds too optimistic to be honest.
speaking of comics' readers (hard to estimate how many of those are around... I guess anywhere between 300-1000?), they do their reading in other languages, mostly English - either buying books (some are available in bookstores, but usually you need to get them from other countries) or downloading scans or manga scanlations.
