FLuX


FLuX aka John Malloy (born September 19, 1975) is an American fine artist, illustrator, designer, and sequential artist. His illustrations and designs have appeared in advertising, packaging, magazines, cd covers, apparel, on the web, and in posters, with clients ranging from Peace Tea to Diesel to Business Week. His fine art employs a variety of media, including pen & ink, oil & acrylic paint, and digital.

Early life

Malloy was born and raised in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, and began drawing cartoons and rock stars at age 6. His father, a cemetery-caretaker, and mother, a coal-miner’s daughter, encouraged him to pursue his talents. Later, he earned a strong background in trompe l'oeil oil painting, and since has been self-taught in painting, pen & ink, design, and sequential art. He did not become interested in comics or graphic novels until he was 19.

Illustration, Fine Art, and Sequential Art

Born in rural northern Pennsylvania to a cemetery caretaker and a coal-miner’s daughter, Los Angeles based John Malloy, AKA FLuX, began drawing at very young age. He later earned a background in old masters painting and graphic design, and has since been self-taught in fine art, illustration, comics, and design.

His illustrations have been featured in The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration, and Gestalten's Illusive 3 book of contemporary Illustration. Since 2007 he has produced work for 55 DSL (Diesel Clothing), Paste Magazine, Business Week, Focus Features, Minus the Bear, and many more. He is also the logo designer and artist behind Peace Iced Tea for Hansen's Beverage Co./Monster Energy. His illustrations and designs have been featured in a variety of publications and exhibits, including Illusive, The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration, and Spectrum. He was most recently awarded the platinum prize for Illustration in the 42nd Creativity International Print Competition.

His fine art has been exhibited at Thinkspace Gallery, Gallery 1988, Gallery Nucleus, Spoke Art Gallery, Art Whino Gallery, AR4T Gallery, Sin City Gallery, and in the globally touring exhibitions Tiger Translate and Into Infinity, and others.

His first graphic novel, Amnesia (NBM Publishing; 2001), combined pen & ink, digital, and painted media.[1] In its review of the novel, Publishers Weekly wrote that "[w]hile Malloy has obvious ambition and talent, he hasn't harnessed that talent to present a coherent, meaningful narrative."[2] In a 2010 interview Malloy states, "Looking back on it I’m actually not that fond of it since it was my first effort. I’ve always been a fan of the medium and enticed by how unexplored it is as a genre."[3] He returned to the sequential/comics medium in 2007, concepting and illustrating sequential-art rock interviews for Lemon Magazine, and is currently at work on his autobiographical graphic novel titled Queasy [an excerpt appears in Image Comics' Popgun Anthology Volume #4].

References

  1. ↑ Sangiacomo, Michael (June 26, 2001). "Comics column: Marvel to Drop Annuals for Extra Issues", Newhouse News Service.
  2. ↑ Zaleski, Jeff (March 25, 2002). "Amnesia", Publishers Weekly 249 (12): 47–8.
  3. ↑ Graphic Design Blog (November, 2010). "Interview with Artist and Illustrator John Malloy about his Design Projects", Graphic Design Blog.

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