The Home of the Creative Mind

Welcome to PooBahSpiel, the online voice and home of the creative mind of Mark Monlux, Illustrator Extraordinaire. Prepare yourself for an endless regaling of art directly from the hand of this stellar artist. And brace yourself against his mighty wind of pontification. Updates are kinda weekly and show daily sketches, current projects, and other really nifty stuff.

Monday, January 17, 2011

The Comic Critic Reviews Aaah Zombies


The premise of Aaah! Zombies!! is pretty funny. A group of kids are accidentally turned into zombies. Here’s the twist: they don’t know it. From their perspective, they can understand what they themselves are saying, but everyone else is all hopped up and running around screaming like bees on cocaine. They see themselves as normal, but everyone else, of course, sees them for the walking corpses they are. To emphasize this, the film is both black-and-white and color, with black-and-white being normal and color being, um, zombie vision. This fun and silly film is more comedy than horror. It doesn’t take itself seriously and you shouldn’t either.

Friday, January 14, 2011

The Return of Stickman #1247


I've heard everything from the birds got drunk from feeding on yeast to the Nazi UFO theory. I thought it might be funny to mention the UFO theory in my strip. Yes, I didn't make this up. I only wish I had. Just think. It's the Nazis behind all of this. Damn Nazis!

Monday, January 10, 2011

The Comic Critic Reviews "The Happening" 2008


I’m a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan’s work. Maybe one of the reasons I’m still a big fan of his is that I haven’t seen The Last Airbender yet. His best known trademark is the Sudden Reveal. What I enjoyed about The Happening is that the reveal is steady, like removing layers off an onion. The audience becomes comfortable with the pace to focus on the characters and how they process the horror that could catch them at any moment. And then he trips us up with some left field surprises. I found the film very enjoyable. I’m looking forward to more of his work. Though I’m on the fence about when exactly I’ll get around to watching The Last Airbender.

Friday, January 7, 2011

The Return of Stickman #1243


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Oh, Yeah. That name is enough to keep him from ever committing another robbery. I can't think of a worse name to have hanging around your neck in the big house, except for maybe Pretty Boy Floyd.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011