Sami Makkonen

Finnish artist Sami Makkonen illustrated the graphic novels Blue and Deadworld Slaughterhouse for Desperado before signing on to visually document the travels of Hatter Madigan. He won the 2007 Sarjis award for best fantasy comic and is a two-time winner of the Ghastly Award for Best Horror Mini-Series. Sami is a graduate of the University of Tartu, Estonia, and has illustrated web comics for Chemistry Set and Split Lip as well as CD covers for Finnish artists Ródsogarden and Anssi Kela.