Ville Tietäväinen (born 1970) is a comics artist, illustrator, and graphic designer working in Helsinki. His graphic novel Näkymättömät kädet (The Invisible Hands) was awarded the Sarjakuva-Finlandia in 2012.

In his new book, Tietäväinen criticises Elias Lönnrot and the Finnish builders of national identity who used the Kalevala as a toy horse. During Lönnrot’s 1830s expedition to White Karelia, he encounters Moarie Karhu. Moarie sings her family’s poems to Lönnrot, who promises not to publish them. Metsän kuningatar (The Queen of the Forest) is a dizzying, visually stunning comic book that spans across centuries. It tells how Lönnrot, Karelia enthusiasts, ethnologists, as well as later kinfolk warriors and proponents of Greater Finland during the Continuation War shaped White Karelian myths to serve nationalist purposes.