John Malloy

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John Malloy / FLuX

John Malloy AKA FLuX (born September 19, 1975) is an American fine artist, illustrator, designer, and sequential artist. His fine art has been exhibited internationally, and employs a variety of media, including pen & ink, oil & acrylic paint, and digital. His illustrations and designs have appeared in advertising, packaging, magazines, cd covers, apparel, on the web, and in posters, with clients such as Peace Tea, Diesel, Focus Features, FX, Business Week and others.

Early life[]

Malloy was born and raised in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, and began drawing at the age of 6. His father was a cemetery-caretaker and his mother a coal-miner’s daughter. He event earned a background in trompe-l'œil oil painting, and since has been self-taught in painting, pen & ink, design, and sequential art and design.

Illustration, Fine art, Sequential art, & Design[]

Born in rural northern Pennsylvania to a cemetery caretaker and a coal-miner's daughter, 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, Spectrum, and Gestalten's Illusive 3 book of contemporary illustration. Since 2007 he has produced work for 55DSL (Diesel Clothing), The Internet, Paste Magazine, Business Week, Focus Features, Dawn Richard and Minus the Bear. He is also the logo designer and artist behind the original Peace Iced Tea. His work has earned numerous awards including Creativity International's Platinum & Bronze Awards, The Society of Illustrators Silver Award for his work on the groundbreaking The Village Bully, and Spectrum, and has been featured in The DieLine, Gestalten's Illusive, The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration, Beyond Illustration, Packaging of the World and other publications.

His fine art has been exhibited in galleries internationally in Los Angeles, NY, Baltimore, Washington DC, Seattle, Cambodia, Japan, Australia, China and the U.K. Some galleries include Gallery Nucleus, La Luz de Jesus, Hive Gallery, Gallery 1988, Baton Rouge Gallery, One Eleven Gallery, Thinkspace Gallery, Gristle Gallery, and the Cotton Candy Machine.

In Sequential Art first graphic novel, Amnesia (NBM Publishing; 2001), combined pen & ink, digital, and painted media. 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].

In Design he is the designer and Creative Director behind the original Peace Iced Tea, the energy drink Adrenaline Shoc, and has worked with other brands including Prismacolor, Sharpie, Monster Energy, and others.

References[]

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External links[]

• John Malloy Official Webpage
• Interview with Art Nectar
• Feature on The Die Line
• LA Weekly Review of 'Another Dimension' exhibit at Gallery 1988
• Interview in Grab Magazine (Italy)
• Review in Juxtapoz
• Lemon Magazine
• Interview in New Web Pick Magazine #16
• Interview & Reviews at Lostateminor