Wuerz/Michel Vaillant. Moose drawing in homage to Graton. Gouache and watercolor. Beautiful technical mastery. Signed and dated 2021. TBE+. 30 X 43 cm Timo Wuerz (1973) is a German cartoonist who made his first comic book with writer Niki Kopp in 1993, the same year he began working as a freelance artist. Wuerz and Kopp created a comic project entitled 'XCT', published by Carlsen Comics in 1997. The sequel to 'XCT', 'Black Metal', was released in 2001. In 2006, he published an album featuring 'Der Letzte Henker', one of the secondary characters in 'Black Metal'.

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