I was a teenager in the 80s when Helloween dropped. We didn't say "dropped" back then. I was 16 when I saw their video for Halloween on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. I'm quite sure being on the Ball is what propelled them into fame.
But this isn't a post about Helloween. It's a post about the artist Frederick Moulaert, a Belgian who drew lots of fun cartoony art for the band Helloween. I had completely forgotten about those ad spots and CD case drawings. But dammit, Frederick was killing it in those days. The one that stands out in my memory the most was of a woman leap-frogging a pumpkin. You know the one, you metalheads out there.
So it looks like Frederick has his time in the spotlight in the late 80s, in terms of doing heavy metal art. Then he moved on to other things and currently I believe he's mostly a website designer. My selfish brain badly wants him to do a bunch more lowbrow comic art, though.
In terms of style, he's solidly European. He did some art for Fluide Glacial and Spirou. His work would fit perfectly into an issue of Heavy Metal, but I'm not sure he ever did anything for that magazine.
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