Our next Artist You Need To Know is George Grosz (1893 – 1959). Grosz (born Georg Ehrenfried Groß) was a German artist renowned for his drawings and paintings of Berlin, especially in the 1920s and capturing post WW I Germany, that employed satire and caricature in a...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fiona Smyth. For almost four decades, Smyth has made work in the intersecting spheres of art, comics and murals. Educated at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD U) from which she graduated in 1986, Smyth’s “comics have...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is more historical, but in this ongoing series we like to range into many different eras and arenas. Rodolphe Töpffer (1799 – 1846) was a Swiss author, teacher, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist: Töpffer illustrated books such as...