The Swiss artist Ted Scapa has died at the age of 92. The family confirmed a report by the news portal blick.ch to the news agency Keystone-SDA. Scapa was born in Amsterdam in 1931. The illustrator became known to a wide audience through the children s programme Das Spielhaus (The playhouse) on Swiss television in the 1960s and 1970s. As a cartoonist, Scapa drew for the international press for many years and published numerous children s books and cartoon collections. Scapa usually creates a series of pictures on one theme. Scapa lived in Vallamand, canton Vaud, on Lake Murten for many years. Since February 2021, the artist has lived in a retirement home in Bern. How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the