R.I.P. Heinz Edelmann, Yellow Submarine Art Director
Posted by Evie
The L.A. Times reports that Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film “Yellow Submarine,” died last week at a hospital in Stuttgart, Germany. He also designed the cover for the German edition of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, among many other books. He was 75.
He was also living proof that you don’t need drugs to be an awesome surrealist:
“I had never taken any drugs,” the artist said in a 2004 interview with the British magazine Design Week. “I’m a conservative, working-class person who sticks to booze . . . so I just knew about the psychedelic experience. . . . I guessed what it was.”
So remember that, aspiring cartoonists: stick to booze.
I can’t seem to get video embedding to work, but here’s “When I’m 64″ from “Yellow Submarine,” enjoy.
07/27/09 at 12:36 pm
True. It worked for Wally Wood….
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07/27/09 at 12:55 pm
It’s like Geof Darrow in that Matrix interview “The only drugs I do are coffee and Metamucil”
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