St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, Basel

Born in 1966 in Zurich, Thomas Ott is German-speaking Switzerland’s most internationally famous comics author. His scratchboard works combine a black-heavy visual language (inspired by the dramatic aesthetics of pulp films and books) with stories that are bleak and nightmarish, resulting in grotesque cryptic tragedies. The masterful linework and opulent vividness of the images that he scratches out with a craft knife form an unsettling contrast with the wordlessness and macabre humour of his narratives.

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