Education
Tietäväinen graduated as an architect but he has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer since the 1990s.
Tietäväinen graduated as an architect but he has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer since the 1990s.
His first comic book Linnut ja meret was published in 2003. Probably the most influential work by Tietäväinen is the Invisible Hands (Finnish: Näkymättömät kädet) comic book released in 2011. Invisible Hands tells the grim story of an Moroccan tailor Rashid who faces economic difficulties in his home country and leaves his family to look for work in Spain as an illegal alien.
The comic book deals with themes like social injustice, illegal immigrants and globalization.