Thomas Ott (*10.6.1966, Zurich) is the most internationally renowned Swiss-German comic author. His mezzotint works combine a black-heavy, film-oriented visual language with dark, nightmarish stories to create an unmistakable mixture. The masterful strokes and opulent plasticity of the images scratched with the cutter form an oppressive contrast to the reduced wordlessness of his stories.
Thomas Ott's first works appeared in the comic magazine "Strapazin" while he was still studying graphic design at the Zurich School of Design. After graduating, he worked as a freelance comic artist and illustrator. In 1989, the publisher Edition Moderne publishes his book "Tales of Error", scratched in mezzotint. It is the first in a series of acclaimed comic albums in which he combines the drastically exaggerated depiction of pulp films and books with grotesque, cryptic tragedies.
Thomas Ott's first works appeared in the comic magazine "Strapazin" while he was still studying graphic design at the Zurich School of Design. After graduating, he worked as a freelance comic artist and illustrator. In 1989, the publisher Edition Moderne publishes his book "Tales of Error", scratched in mezzotint. It is the first in a series of acclaimed comic albums in which he combines the drastically exaggerated depiction of pulp films and books with grotesque, cryptic tragedies.
