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About me

Louis Netter is a trained illustrator, animator and designer with over 10 years of experience teaching in higher education. Artwork is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, New York Historical Society and many University libraries across the USA. He has provided illustration for numerous books and publications and exhibited widely as one of the directors of the New York Society of Etchers. His first graphic novel Lizard World is currently seeking a publisher.

Both my illustration work and my personal work revel in the delights of decadence and absurdity. We live in strange times and although I had initially thought that satire was dead with the election and then re-election of George Bush, we can still find ways of laughing through clenched teeth.

Educated in both America and the UK, my work is shaped by both traditions of social and political satire which are distinct to their respective cultures. Observation is at the core of both traditions and my work is an outgrowth of revelations that were sparked by my reportage practice (which can be see at . ) Drawing has a sustaining interest for me and it reflects an ecstatic engagement with the world like no other act. Orchestrating the madness that is the modern world in drawings is a wholly fulfilling thing, even when those gross absurdities only touch on dark and true realities.

In all of the grimaces, rolls of fat, clinked glasses and wry smiles in my drawings there is a profoundly human question being asked; isn't it great to be alive

Clients

The Stranger Newspaper, Campaign magazine, Stocks and Commodities, Cimarron Review, SubTerrain Magazine, Hollywood Outsider, Jack Sprat Press, Livingston Press, Rockford Review, New York Etchers Press, and World War III Illustrated.

Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, Library of Congress and numerous libraries across the US.

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blog - Sketchbook

Corruption Comics

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Details

AvailabilityLooking for work

ContractFreelance, Part time

LocationBath, United Kingdom

Skill LevelSenior

LanguagesEnglish

Tagged Job TitlesVisualiser - Design/Advertising, Illustrator, 2D Animator

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Skills

Animation, comic art, Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design, Illustration, Print, Publishing

Sector Experience

Education, Film (Short / Documentary), Illustration, Publishing

Clients

campaign magazine, Livingston press, sub terrain, the stranger

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ASIFA

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