Albo Helm

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Voormalig cartoonist/illustrator/grafisch ontwerper, sinds NAH soort van 'artiest'. En zal me als zodanig hier uitleven. Aangenaam! https://www.albohelm.nl

Rough illustration of 1967's one-hit wonder The Warm Sounds: bird eats suicidal bee, the sky and trees are upside down. Digital
Illustrating Big Star's 'Kizza Me' (1975), ordinary watercolors and fineliners. Man (Alex Chilton?) reaching out with lips extremely pursed while white clouds pierce his head.
Drawing Chuck Berry's Little Queenie. Him doing the duckwalk, a tiny crown with feet barely escapes his hovering footsole. Magenta, cyan and yellow colored, digital after photo.
Illustration of the song 'Suffering Jukebox' by the Silver Jews, for Dutch musicmagazine Heaven. An oldfashioned humanized jukebox stands in the corner of a cafe filled with a chatting crowd. Through the window happy highrises cranes and a smiling sun. Jukebox is in color, the rest mainly grey.
Illustrating Pink Grease's 'The Pink G.R.Ease'(2004). A bucketload of pink coloured mass poured out over a smiling character.
Illustrating Lizzy Mercier Descloux's 'Mais où sont passées les gazelles?' (1984). Hind legs of a gazelle fleeing out of pictureframe.
Today's earworm is Vikki Carr's 1967 hit 'It must be him'. Cartoonish woman laying dead on the floor next to an oldschool telephone off the hook. It's in the lyrics.
Illustration of "Deus ibi est' from Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan album 'Ballad of the broken seas', just portraits of the singers in violet and white color pencil on light violet paper, suggesting underwater.
Illustrating ‘Angel’ by Jimi Hendrix (1971-77). Pastel on grey paper, a winged form decends from the clouds on colorful guitarplayer.
Illustration of 'I am the fly' by Wire (1977). Dead fly in a pot of ointment, Pink Flag brand. A bit scratchy, black and white with a few dashes of color. Digital.
Today's illustration is 'Alles wieder offen' by German band Einstürzende Neubauten (2007). A fist covered with nails pulling up grey cloth to uncover the emptyness underneath. All open again.
Illustration of 'Dream within a dream' by Spirit. Female cyclop laying on top of two blooming stages of a dandelion. Photomontage plus digital drawing.
Illustrating 'Dizzy' by Tommy Roe (1969). Just a lot of spirals done with color pencil and a tiny pic of Mr Gillespie in the corner
Illustrating the song Fire Brigade by The Move (1968). A fire/wo/man extinguishing something far right with hearts.
Illustrated interpretation of Tim Finn's 'Fraction Too Much Friction': Anxious cyclist holding his breaks descents steep hillside, pencil and watercolors.
Illustrating 'Scissor Man' by XTC (1979). Cartoonish character on the run, holding tiny scissors and leaving behind clippings of Putin's face
Song 'The Luxury' by Tragically Hip illustrated: purple flames under orange-golden rainshower. Pretty abstract, drawn with Procreate.
Israel's PM balancing emergency aid vehicle on index finger over needy mother and baby amidst ruins. Title of today's earworm: 'Come and get it' by Badfinger (a hit in 1970)
Illustration of the song 'Astronomy (8th Light)' by Talib Kweli and Mos Def/Yasiin Bey for Dutch music magazine Heaven.
Fourth comic about my mosquito treating rotten public figures. This time the leader of Dutch agro-fascist party.
Short comic with mosquito as protagonist that toys with the Russian president, which leads to hitting and poisoning himself.
First comic short featuring a nasty mosquito bothering even nastier peoples. Dutch language, title: Bad Blood.
Covers 'Ik ben de drummer van de band okay' van Toby Litt, en 'De werkplaats van de duivel' van Jáchym Topol.
Front cover of 'A user's manual for prison Silivri', graphic novel by Yiǧit Aksakoǧlu & Cans, www.mahalle.art