【正文】 a criminal offence. This can be considered a case of regulative classification, in which regulatory government policies affect ACS indirectly. Although the final verdict in the case was ‘not guilty’, the procedure contributed to making it clear that ics did not belong under the auspices of arts policy. Qualified acceptance Meanwhile, during the 1970s, the field of ics had experienced several changes that were inclined to make the field more acceptable in the eyes of cultural policy makers and the art of these was the emergence of markets for ic albums, sold at bookstores. This change brought with it ics made for adults and also raised the status of the authors. It was easier to accept ics of the new type than the traditional magazines and ic books at news stands or strips in the newspapers. The development introduced the concept of ‘quality ics’ (Heikkinen 1991, pp. 30–32.) The transformation was to a large extent based on the advent of translations into Finnish of new types of ics albums, especially of French origin. It resulted in widening the prevailing concept of ics from the traditional AngloAmerican imagery towards more artoriented and varied continental ideas of the time. A Finnish field of ics was also emerging. A new magazine Sarjis (1972–74) published Finnish ics, the Finnish Society of Comics was established in 1971, and several local ics societies were founded at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. The development created an organizational foundation for those actors and interests in the field which were separated from the mercial market, and initiated the development of a new professional subfield of ics. National ics production extended its share of the ics market during the 1980s. In this decade, the bookstore circulation of ics albums and the market for albums meant for adults established themselves in Finland, and these markets had a growing supply of Finnish main factor in this development was the rise of small publishers specializing in ics. The number of Finnish ics in the newspapers also grew, partly due to the setting up of a Finnish ics syndicate at the beginning of the 1980s. A few nonprofessional magazines published by local ics societies also started to appear during the 1980s (Heikkinen 1991, p. 137). Within the realm of cultural policy, the traditional divisions and borderlines changed during the 1980s in many respects. Comics were one of the reevaluated areas. After the early years of the decade, restrictive measures against producing and distributing ics were no longer proposed by the makers of cultural policy. Demands for censorship and restrictions focused on videos instead of ics (see, ., Samola 1989). Concerning ics, cultural policy adopted a double orientation. The first signs of this double orientation were already expressed in the Government’s report to Parliament on the arts policy in 1978. Besides restrictions for importing and distributing ‘material that seriously endangers the development of children and young people’, the report also proposed measures to ‘increase the supply of alternative material of high quality’ (Hallituksen taidepoliittinen selonteko 1979, pp. 27–31). The 1979 ad hoc mittee on children’s culture also exemplifies this double orientation, which m