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Check out this article on BBook.com: http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-new-literary-enfant-terrible The New Literary Enfant Terrible: Mercedes Helnwein By Nick Haramis Click here to see photos of the Helnwein family with Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, and Marilyn Manson! Click here to check out new works by Mercedes Helnwein! For an exclusive interview between Mercedes and her father Gottfried Helnwein, click here! Self-Portrait with Ribbon, pencil on paper, 2006, left. As a slight child, novelist and fine artist Mercedes Helnwein started fooling around with comic books. She’d bury herself in work, trying to ignore her father, Austrian-Irish shock artist Gottfried Helnwein, as he positioned nearby zombies and Nazi henchmen for his various art projects. Helnwein grew up feeling alienated by the modern world, happy to hide away in a secluded Viennese castle overrun with three siblings, where, she explains, “I was stuck in the Victorian era and Mark Twain’s America, and blues music.” The Helnwein children spent their days posing for their father, their faces painted and bandaged, steel clamps in their mouths. When taken to restaurants to mingle with dad’s famous friends—Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Muhammad Ali—she ignored them in favor of literary escapism. www.bbook.com