Matti Hagelberg

Matti Hagelberg (born 1964 Kirkkonummi) is a Finnish comic book artist, illustrator, graphical designer and teacher. He attended the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and achieved a Master of Arts degree. Hagelberg is the only famous Finnish author to use scratch cardboard as his medium and has won a Puupää hat award of the Finnish Comic Society in 1997. He is married to Katja Tukiainen with one child.

Contents

• Matti hagelberg reziden ni umetnik animateke
• Exhibits
• Awards
• References

Hagelberg's comics are humorous and discursive. He combines mythology and popular culture with fantastic and autobiographical elements in a liberal way. It is also common for Hagelberg to use a heroic character named directly after himself

His latest work is 'One way to make time more easy passing',a 1000-page comic book.

Exhibits

Le Mauvais oeil sur (Strasbourg, Angoulême, Marseille) 1997

BIG Torino, biennale arte emergente 2000

Un Regarde Moderne -gallery in Paris 2000

The Finnish Culture Institute of Tallinn 2000

Awards

Best of year 1993 - special prize and commendation for best use of paper medium

Best of year 1995 - silver apex for B.E.M. 2

Puupää hat award, 1997