Ville Tietäväinen

Ville Tietäväinen

Ville Tietäväinen at the Helsinki Book Fair in 2011
Born (1970-10-20) October 20, 1970
Helsinki, Finland
Nationality Finnish
Area(s) Comic book artist, illustrator, graphic designer
Notable works
 Näkymättömät kädet, 2011
Linnut ja meret, 2003
Awards Graphic Novel Finlandia Prize 2011

Ville Tietäväinen is a Finnish graphic designer, illustrator and comic artist.[1] His first comic book Linnut ja meret was published in 2003.[2] Tietäväinen graduated as an architect but he has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer since the 1990s.[3]

Probably the most influential work by Tietäväinen is the Invisible Hands (Finnish: Näkymättömät kädet) comic book released in 2011.[4] The book was the winner of Finnish Graphic Novel Finlandia Prize in the year 2011.[5] Invisible Hands tells the grim story of an Moroccan tailor Rashid who faces economic difficulties in his home country and leaves his family to look for work in Spain as an illegal alien. The comic book deals with themes like social injustice, illegal immigrants and globalization.

Works

References

  1. ↑ WSOY, Ville Tietäväinen. URL: http://www.wsoy.fi/kirjailijat/-/author/name/Tiet%C3%A4v%C3%A4inenVille (Referred 30 July 2013). In Finnish.
  2. ↑ Finnish Comics. URL: http://finnishcomics.info/artists/ville-tietavainen/ In English
  3. ↑ Esa Mäkinen (5 May 2012) 90-prosenttinen käyttötaiteilija. In Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin sanomat, page C2.
  4. ↑ Finnish Comics. URL: http://finnishcomics.info/artists/ville-tietavainen/ In English
  5. ↑ Finnish Comics. URL: http://finnishcomics.info/artists/ville-tietavainen/ In English


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