Greetings from Hellville

Swiss artist Thomas Ott’s Greetings from Hellville is a singular, wordless horror-comic postcard from Edition Moderne, first published in 1995. Through Ott’s signature scratchboard illustrations, the single issue presents a nightmarish tour of a grotesque amusement park, where each panel is a meticulously crafted, black-and-white tableau of dread and dark humor. A masterwork of visual storytelling, it remains a defining example of Ott’s ability to conjure entire narratives from shadow and line alone.