Visual

For our 10th anniversary, world-renowned illustrator, designer and concept artist Stanley Artgerm Lau created the visual. Artgerm is also the creative director and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios - a globally recognized digital art studio that produces high-quality artwork for companies such as Capcom, DC Comics, Marvel Comics and other giants in the entertainment and gaming industries. For Marvel Comics in particular, Artgerm has made a name for himself with a series of unique cover designs. His work has graced titles such as Astonishing X-Men, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Mighty Thor, Spider-Gwen, Absoluge Carnage and many more. His most famous DC comic covers include Supergirl, Cat Woman and Wonder Woman.

In 2023, graffiti artist and illustrator Syrk brought a part of his universe inhabited by colourful, funny and crazy animals onto our visual. On walls or canvases, Syrk brings an incredible bestiary to life with his iconic animal figures. His work is a tribute to the animal world, because for him the animal kingdom dominates humanity. Sometimes cute, sometimes cheeky, Syrk's animals challenge and stimulate our imagination.

2022 we were delighted with our beautiful and futuristic visual, designed by Italian comic artist Laura Braga! Laura began her career in 1999 as a storyboard artist for television commercials. In 2012, she entered the US comics industry, working for Top Cow as a regular cartoonist for Witchblade. Since 2014, she has worked for Marvel on titles such as Superior Iron Man, Captain Marvel, The Punisher and Dazzler. She also drew on FUTURE STATE: THE NEXT BATMAN, the story about the first Black Batman in the DC Universe, which was released in 2021 and written by Academy Award winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave). Currently, Laura inspires as a comic book artist for "BLOSSOMS 666" and as a cover artist for the new miniseries "Archie and Katy Keene," for Dynamite Comics and Archie Comics.

The internationally successful comic artist Viktor Bogdanović grew up in Basel, but also lived for a long time in Berlin and Belgrade. After a brief detour via Image Comics, he was soon working for DC and Marvel on comics such as Wolverine, Batman: Arkham Knight and Aquaman. Viktor Bogdanović was also signed on for the ur-superhero comic book series Action Comics, which he co-created with DC legend Dan Jurgens (The Death of Superman). With award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang, he introduced readers to an all-new superhero, Kong Kenan, in New Super-Man Vol 1: Made in China.

Artwork by Aiven. 2020 was the official visual of FANTASY BASEL - The Swiss Comic Con 2020 "made in switzerland" and yet not quite out of this world. Yvan Feusi aka Aiven has been a guest in the Artist Alley at the show a few times in previous years, showing his unique, distinctive and futuristic style.

Swiss art director and concept artist Christian Scheurer lives and works in Hollywood and designed the 2019 visual for us to celebrate the 5th anniversary of FANTASY BASEL - The Swiss Comic Con! Christian has already won 16 Academy Awards for his work on major productions such as Final Fantasy IX, Lord of The Rings: Return of the King, Matrix, Man of Steel, Thor: The Dark World, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, John WIck III, Maleficent 2.

Enrico Marini, one of the most talented and well-known French-language comic book authors and illustrators designed our 2018 visual. With his series "The Scorpion" (2 million works sold worldwide) and "The Eagles of Rome" (more than 500,000 copies), he has attracted many readers not only in Switzerland but also in France, Germany and Italy, his country of origin. For DC Entertainment, he illustrated, among others, two Batman comics published by Dargaud and Panini.

Our 2017 visual was designed by top Swiss designer Christian Scheurer.

Maurizio Manzieri, the artist behind the FANTASY BASEL - The Swiss Comic Con Visual 2016 is an internationally successful illustrator from Turin and professionally specialized in surreal fantasy worlds. His artwork has been published on countless covers of leading international publishers and magazines: Mondadori, Bragelonne, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's SF, Analog, ImagineFX, MacMillan, Putnam / Berkley, PYR, Prime Books and Subterranean Press. Our 2016 visual features a steampunk version of the city of Basel with a clear "Alice in Wonderland" influence. In 2018 and 2019 he also designed the visual for the ZURICH GAME SHOW.

Zurich-based urban artist C-Line (Celine Quadri) drew the very first visual for FANTASY BASEL - The Swiss Comic Con in 2015. C-Line's art style is a contemporary combination of bold lines, shapes and bright strokes of color. Her work is known from Berlin to Los Angeles to Cape Town.