'Benjamin Croquette' (FNV magazine 1992-93).
Albo Helm was born in 1953 in Zürich, Switzerland. He is a self-made comic artist with a degree in journalism. Since the 1970s, Helm's work has appeared widely in many publications. His first comics appeared 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 to the Utrecht University magazine, and has drawn biographical comics for educational books.
'Stem' from 'De Inktpot' (February 2006), an allegory on voting.
In the early 1990s, Helm published the gag strip 'Benjamin Croquette' in FNV Magazine. The character later appeared as protagonist in a weekly web comic on croquette.nl. Helm has published the following comic books: 'Schmerz Comix' (1978), 'Antitod 1', '1290 Comix' and 'WoordOp!' (2003), and contributed to anthologies like 'The Bush Junta' (2004) and 'Strips in Stereo' (2006). His political strips and cartoons appear regularly in magazine Ravage and in the newspapers Trouw, Stadskrant Utrecht and Utrechts Nieuwsblad. He also draws for Vrij Nederland, AD and De Volkskrant.
'Wurzeln' (Zone 5300 #4 1999).
Helm co-founded comic artists organization NuKomix in 2000, and magazine De Inktpot in 2003, of which 14 issues have appeared. Apart from making comics, Helm also works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. He writes reviews of graphical soft- and hardware for MacFan. He lives in Utrecht, in the center of The Netherlands, where he is also one of the driving forces behind the annual Cartoon Art Fair (KunstStripBeurs).
Comic from Straatnieuws #13, 2007.