Guy Peellaert is dead.
Les aventures de Jodelle by Peellaert
Guy Peellaert (April 6 1934 in Brussels, Belgium, 17 November 2008, Paris) is a Belgian artist, graphic designer, painter and photographer, best-known for his vinyl album cover designs of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Diamond Dogs by David Bowie.
He debuted as a theater set designer but first made his mark as comic book creator. His style was evidently inspired by the psychedelic and Pop art aesthetics celebrated in the 1960s (see Hapshash and the Coloured Coat in the UK).
From : Rock Dreams, Albin Michel, Paris,1974
His graphic novel Les aventures de Jodelle appeared in Hara-Kiri. Éric Losfeld published it in book version in 1966. The heroine protagonist Jodelle was styled after French singer Sylvie Vartan). Peellaert followed up with a second version, co-written with Pascal Thomas for a new heroine, Pravda, la survireuse (this time the French singer Françoise Hardy served as a model). 35 years later, the couturier Jean-Charles de Castelbajac would use the imagery of Pravda and Jodelle for his collection Physical graffiti in 2001.
Most recently, Peellaert did a series of photo-collages on Belgian popular music for Belgian magazine Focus Knack.
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Jeu de massacre by Alain Jessua
He also designed the French Pop art film Jeu de massacre film by Alain Jessua, with music by The Alan Bown Set.
I love the image of “Rock Dreams”
Daan made the music for a documentary on GP …