Ville Tietäväinen is a Finnish graphic designer, illustrator and comic artist.WSOY, Ville Tietäväinen. URL: http://www.wsoy.fi/kirjailijat/-/author/name/Tiet%C3%A4v%C3%A4inenVille (Referred 30 July 2013). In Finnish. His first comic book Linnut ja meret was published in 2003.Finnish Comics. URL: http://finnishcomics.info/artists/ville-tietavainen/ In English Tietäväinen graduated as an architect but he has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer since the 1990s.Esa Mäkinen (5 May 2012) 90-prosenttinen käyttötaiteilija. In Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin sanomat, page C2.
Probably the most influential work by Tietäväinen is the Invisible Hands (Finnish: Näkymättömät kädet) comic book released in 2011.Finnish Comics. URL: http://finnishcomics.info/artists/ville-tietavainen/ In English The book was the winner of Finnish Graphic Novel Finlandia Prize in the year 2011.Finnish Comics. URL: http://finnishcomics.info/artists/ville-tietavainen/ In English Invisible Hands tells the grim story of a 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 Näkymättömät kädet (2011) Linnut ja meret (2003) Hymyilevä kuu (1995, with Harri Hannula)
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