HELLLLLEN

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helllllen — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:22:44 +0000

Calvin and I are gonna be at TCAF this weekend, sellin’ shit at table 115. 116? Who knows. I got a zine reprint of Jin & Jam #1, fancy big ol’ giclee prints, and I made me a shit new mini, Deep Cut:

In more exciting news, Calvin’s got an excellent new comic, Ramble On #2!!!!!

ASCENDED MASTER

helllllen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:02:01 +0000

OH SHIT! First illustration of the new year! I painted this in gouache for the cover of Mimi Thi Nguyen’s upcoming book, The Gift of Freedom, to be published this July by Duke University Press. Click to view larger:

Ascended Master
Gouache on craft paper
6×9″

As an added bonus, here is the test palette on which I daubed me paints:

I was so incredibly honored when Mimi asked me to illustrate her book cover. I read her Punk Planet columns back in my young poseur days, and I was lucky enough to take a really great Gender and Science course for which she was the Graduate Student Instructor. The day we swapped zines (her most incredible Race Riot, which I still have and cherish, for my incredibly bad autobio sub-manga mini-comic) was the day I vowed to continue to make zines and stay XupXtheXpunX forever

TWIN SISTER

helllllen — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:40:02 +0000

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

Twin Sister
6×6″
Brush pen & gouache on four Post-Its

for Post-It Show 7, opening at GR2 on Saturday night:

LOOK TO THE FUTURE

helllllen — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:49:23 +0000

A preview of the last illustration I’ll do in 2011. Pencil on computer paper:

Good night
Schlaf gut
어서 꺼져

BAY AREA NATIVE

helllllen — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:35:08 +0000

This is a new painting I did for “Devil Town”, which opens tomorrow night at Gallery 1988 on Melrose. This illustration, like the rest of this finely curated group show, is inspired by the haunting Daniel Johnston song, “Devil Town”, while also serving as a sort of homage to South San Jose, where I grew up.

BAY AREA NATIVE
Brush pen & watercolor on Arches
12×16″
Click to view larger:

Here is a detail, in which two girls are performing bunshinsaba, a Korean summoning charm that enables communication with ghosts.

Here is a recording of the song, followed by the lyrics:

Devil Town
Daniel Johnston
“1990″ (1993)

I was living in a Devil Town
Didn’t know it was a Devil Town
Oh, Lord, it really brings me down
About the Devil Town

And all my friend were vampires
Didn’t know they were vampires
Turns out I was a vampire myself
In the Devil Town

I was living in a Devil Town
Didn’t know it was a Devil Town
Oh Lord it really brings me down
About the Devil Town

“Devil Town” opens at Gallery 1988 LA (7020 Melrose, LA, CA) tomorrow night, Friday December 2, from 7-10PM. The show will remain on display through December 24. Thanks to Daniel Danger, who curated this show, for kindly inviting me to participate.

THE GENTLE ART OF SELLING YOURSELF

helllllen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:44:47 +0000

VOTE FOR ME HERE

BUY MY SHIT THERE*

PUNCH OUT A DICK

GOOD NIGHT

*I got me a new store at bigcartel. THAT’S SO MONEY!

SKATE OR DIE

helllllen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:35:43 +0000

Remember when you were young and wild, leaning on chain link fences, trespassing on foreclosed homes with your teen gang, and looking for dried out pools to skate? Yeah, me neither. I squandered my youth wringing my hands and constantly panicking about the future, and on top of that, I never learned how to skate. What a fucking waste

ANYWAY, here is a watercolor illustration I did for Grace E. This is the very last private commission I’ll do for as long as I am employed, so put your eyeballs all over it (click to view larger):

Pool Skate
9×13
Brush pen & watercolor on Arches

I’ll have giclee prints of this illo, postcards, buttons, comics, my Poketo wallet … y’know, all the same old shit, at APE this weekend. I’ll be tabling with Calvin, Ryan, Derek, Anthony, and Evan at table 614, so steal your mom’s wallet, and git on down hurrr. BANG GANG FOREVER

FUCK YOU, FRIDAY

helllllen — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:43:10 +0000

This is my new business card. It’s a current portrait of me, adjusting to my new life:

JUDITH FINDS LOVE

helllllen — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:10:54 +0000

My appalling rendition of the Gentileschi masterpiece, “Judith & Her Maidservant”, is now available as a limited edition, numbered giclée print, produced and sold by the lovely Rotopol Press in Kassel, Germany. This is a single print run of fifty, and they ain’t gon’ print it again, EVER, so hand over your euros HERE.

And speaking of Judith, here’s a small illustration for ROBOTS!, the GR2 Benefit Show which opens this Saturday. Depicted is a fanciful sci-fi re-imagining of Biblical heroine Judith, her maidservant replaced by a cyborg assistant who loves her. Or some horse shit. Click image to view larger:

Judith & Her Borgservant with the Head of Holofernes
brush pen & watercolor on Arches, 7×7″

PROSTHETIC HEAD AUX

helllllen — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:35:19 +0000

Finished this watercolor illustration last night, six months overdue. Commissioned by the very patient Woody F., who requested that it involve ramen. Because of my incredibly limited skill set and narrow field of interests, I drew some young dirty people eating instant cups of Shin Ramyun on a gray beach day, and I sorta painted in a muted blue-to-red analogous color scheme . Click image to view larger, or something: