Albo Helm

Albo Helm was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He is a self-made comics artist, and has a degree in journalism. Helm's work has appeared widely in many publications since the 1970s. He published his first comics in the ecological magazine De Kleine Aarde. Since then, he has drawn for underground and alternative publications like Tante Leny Presenteert, Talent and Zone 5300. He has drawn several series for the children's page of newspaper Trouw, including 'Klara 17', 'Woest & Bijster' en 'Cancan'. For a period of 25 years, he contributed comics and cartoons for the Utrecht University magazine, and he has drawn biographical comics for educational books.

In the early 1990s he published the gag strip 'Benjamin Croquette in FNV Magazine. Helm has published the following comics: 'Schmerz Comix' (1978), 'Antitod 1', '1290 Comix' and 'WoordOp!' (2003), and contributed to 'The Bush Junta' (2004) and 'Strips in Stereo'. His political strips appear regularly in magazine Ravage and he also draws for Vrij Nederland and AD.

He co-founded comic artists organization NuKomix in 2000, and magazine De Inktpot in 2003. Apart from making comics, Albo Helm also works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. He lives in Utrecht, in the center of The Netherlands