The graphic artist who created many Parliament-Funkadelic album covers and liner-note comics was Pedro Bell.
Chicago-born Pedro Bell was an illustrator, writer, and visual storyteller whose elaborate artwork helped give Funkadelic and George Clinton’s music a distinctive science-fiction and comic-book mythology. He worked with Funkadelic from the 1970s onward, creating album covers, posters, promotional material, and densely illustrated visual worlds filled with slang, characters, and cosmic imagery.
Bell also wrote liner notes under the name Sir Lleb, a reversal of his surname. His invented terms and character names—including Thumpasaurus, Funkapus, and Queen Freakalene—became part of the broader P-Funk vocabulary. His album-art credits include Cosmic Slop, Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, One Nation Under a Groove, and Uncle Jam Wants You.
Neon Park and Cal Schenkel are also important album-cover artists, but they are associated primarily with other musical worlds. Bell’s work is specifically tied to Funkadelic’s visual identity and to the comics-like mythology surrounding George Clinton’s P-Funk universe.