Riber Hansson - Sweden
Riber Hansson, the signature Riber changed profession in the age of 40, from engineer to newspaper artist.
The following three decades he was published by turns in the Swedish newspapers Dagens Industri, Svenska Dagbladet and Sydsvenskan the later his main publisher even today.
His works also appears occasionally in international media. Many works has been showed in exhibitions.
Selected drawings are collected in books.
Riber had 17 one-man exhibitions and have contributed to more than 40 in groups of colleagues.
He got 16 awards for his drawings; the most important are the World Press Cartoon’s Grand Prix, the World Press Cartoon's second price in editorial cartoons, the World Press Cartoon’s third price in caricature two times, the first Press Cartoon Europe’s Grand prix and the first Swedish EWK award 2000, Three books with his own editorial cartoons are published and five in cooperation with authors.
The list could be added by book covers and illustrations for more then 30 books for children and adults.
The artist prefers to relax by painting, drawing, reading and writing.