Sinking Ateneum 1
By
Matti Hagelberg
Matti Hagelberg’s new four-part series kicks off!
Sinking Ateneum tells an alternative history of the Ateneum building. A memoir about the students and teachers of the School of Cartoon Art at the University of Art and Design in 1979-82, it balances on the border between fact and fiction. It may be that not everything went exactly as the book says. Or did it?
Sinking Ateneum 1 was shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Finlandia Prize.
About the author
Matti Hagelberg (b. 1964) is an multi-awarded and internationally renowned comics artist and graphic novelist.Hagelberg has authored over 30 comic books or booklike objects that have been translated into various languages, including English, Swedish and French, the latter in which is is particularly well-known. He has been teaching comics at Aalto University from 1998, and has been responsible for the Comics minor since 2007. His works have been exhibited in various group exhibitions. Apart from comics, Matti Hagelberg has written a libretto for an opera based on his comics.
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