The Hell’O Monsters collective emerged in the late 1990s and
has since developed a highly idiosyncratic graphic vocabulary that is
both complex and ambiguous. Jerôme Meynen, François Dieltiens and
Antoine Detaille draw upon the iconography of fairy tales, fables and
other mediaeval allegories, mythologies, and esotericism and surrealism
in creating brief narrative sequences populated by a fantastic, often
grotesque bestiary of animals, skeletons, imps and odd, human-like
creatures. The dichotomy and paradox prevalent in their work plays with
themes like death, hope, frivolity and failure, at once humorous and
mocking. With an introduction by Christophe Veys.
