Fascists often use the formal language of comics, cartoons and caricatures to spread their ideology. This takes different forms depending on the motif. The octopus as a symbol for greedy world conspirators tells a quintessentially antisemitic narrative with such an extensive history that it has long since been normalised. While it enjoys broad social acceptance and gets reproduced routinely and unquestioned, the appropriation of Pink Panther cartoons by the NSU complex functioned as a shock inducing media catalyst for the terror group’s confessional video. And finally, Pepe the frog, buried under countless layers of irony, abandoned his beginnings in a stoner comic to become a symbol of far-right internet trolls. Semi-Funny is a fictional foray into the personal environments of these figures and in search for answers to the question of how their radicalisation came about.