This week we have The Netherlands as guest, with Eline van Dam, a.k.a. Zeloot, illustrator from The Hague.

Attempts at classifying her work has included language like Gaudy Colored Psychedelics; Hybrid Polychromatic Creatures and Amorphous Hallucinatory Monsters. But two words come to my mind when I am facing her work: Doodles and Psychedelics. Her drawings remembers me the magazines my aunt used to read in the 70′s, which clearly had the design remains of the 60′s.

Eline says about her work:

“I was never really allowed to read comics when I was a kid so I was verrry old (26 years) when I first discovered underground comics and somehow I felt I’d finally found the perfect synthesis  of social criticism and “art” (or rather “graphics”) without the “pointing finger”.

I started obsessively  collecting and reading the comics of Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, David Cooper and the Hernandez brothers (PALOMAR from Gilbert Hernandez is one of my top favourites)etc. I wasted a lot of time in making comics that never had a finishing line, discovering that rather than being a good story-writer it was the act of drawing lines that excited me more than anything.”

“I generally work sober (well if bags of tobacco and copious amounts of coffee still fall into a category of sobriety!).

I am always jealous of people that make 10 drawings a day…I don’t work like that… I spend hours and hours at trying to get the right image on the right feeling…and I do lay a lot awake.”

I could not choose just a handful of her work because of the different sort of styles I noticed. So, I left you with a great-huge-mega-bunch of her work.

Please, visit her at:

Website: http://www.zeloot.nl/main/index.html

Threadless: http://www.threadless.com/profile/93784/zeloot/submissions

Source Box:

Text and Images:

http://www.zeloot.nl/main/index.html

http://www.fitacola.com/zeloot/

http://www.feedmecoolshit.com/interviews-archive/zeloot/