Thomas Ott (comic artist)
Thomas Ott (born June 10, 1966 in Zurich ) is a Swiss comic artist . His comics were and will be a. published in the United States , Spain , Denmark, and Italy .
biography
After graduating from the Zurich School of Design in 1987, he worked as a cartoonist in Zurich and Paris. In 1989 his first book Tales of Error was published by Edition Moderne . It was followed by other books by the same and the French publisher L'Association . He worked for Strapazin , Lapin , L'Écho des Savanes and various newspapers , among others . In 1996 he won the Max and Moritz Prize at the Erlangen Comic Salon as "best German-speaking comic artist".
From 1998 to June 2001, Ott studied film at the Zurich University of Art and Design . His diploma film was the 15-minute Sjeki vatcsh! .
The media praised Ott: he played skillfully “with set pieces from crime novels, series noir and horror. For Ott, the genres of popular culture such as fairy tales are 'a generally valid basis in which everyone can recognize themselves' ”. Others add “in spite of punch lines that hit the deep black, if one would do Otts stories injustice, they would only be seen as a parody of the horror genre. (...) has a heart for the unlucky people of this world and a sense for really tragic stories. "And:" The Swiss comic artist has been delivering the blackest visions of the absurdity of modern civilization for years. "
In 2013 a new work was released after three years: Dark Country is the story of a nightmarish honeymoon and is an independent adaptation of the 2008 film of the same name by the scriptwriter Tab Murphy and the director and Hollywood actor Thomas Jane ( The Punisher ). Jane herself asked Ott to tell his film as a comic.
In 2017, Ott won the Grand Prix Design for his life's work at the Swiss Design Awards.
Works
- Tales of Error , 1989, Modern Edition
- Phantom the Superhero , 1994, Modern Edition
- Greetings from Hellville , 1995, Edition Moderne
- Dead End , 1996, Modern Edition
- La douane , 1996, L'Association
- La bête à cinq doigts , 1996, L'Association
- La grande famiglia , 1997, L'Association
- tott , 2002, Edition Moderne
- Cinema Panopticum , 2005, Edition Moderne
- The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 . Zurich: Edition Moderne 2008, 2nd edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-03731-025-0
- Unplugged. The sketchbook , Zurich: Edition Stephan Witschi, 2009
- RIP Best of 1985-2004 . Zurich: Edition Moderne 2010. ISBN 3037310529
- Dark Country . Zurich: Edition Moderne 2013. ISBN 978-3-03731-114-1
- Black Island . Zurich: Hammer-Verlag 2013
- A Hell of a Woman . (Jim Thompson) Editions la Baconnière , 2014
- Louis Vuitton - Travel Book - Route 66 . (Thomas Ott) Editions Louis Vuitton , 2017
- Rumor Has It . (Illustrations by Thomas Ott) Diogenes Verlag , 2018
Web links
- Official website
- Short film about Thomas Ott's technique for Arte France. Direction & production: Nadja von Ah
- Biography at Fumetto.ch
- Review of "The Number ..." on the ComicRadioShow
- Literature by and about Thomas Ott in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Gasser: Ott, Thomas. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography on the pages of the comic festival bilbolbul.net. Retrieved May 12, 2009 .
- ↑ Information on the production of Sjeki vatcsh! on zhdk.ch .
- ↑ Destiny number , Der Bund , May 20, 2008.
- ↑ A heart for unlucky birds , Tages-Anzeiger , 2005.
- ^ The evil game of numbers , Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 18, 2008.
- ↑ Thomas Ott, Tab Murphy, Thomas Jane: Dark Country . Edition Moderne, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03731-114-1 .
- ↑ Thomas Ott. ZHdK, accessed on September 6, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ott, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |