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.
Woo Hoo! I was about to do a full week of cartoons on top of my regular workload. I think I'm getting back into the swing of things. I even went out to lunch with my neighbor the other day without worry that I was going to give him the plague. Oh, here is the news story that inspired this strip.
After spending most of December, and all of the holidays, sick in bed with the flu, it feels wonderful to get back to the drawing board. One of the first things I did to climb back on the horse was to make some entries into The Marketing Awards. If you work in the industry of advertising and marketing in Seattle then you know that this by-invite only newspaper has its finger on the pulse of everything that is happening in the Northwest. And if you don't know, well, you're just not old-school.
There is a category for videos done under $5,000. I can guarantee that the video I submitted was done for well under that. My special thanks to Adam J. Manley and Joe Izenman who were the other creatives on the team. Wish us luck.
I let the words “Turkish Pulp Cinema” lure me into watching Tarkan and the Blood of the Vikings, aka: Tarkan vs. The Vikings. Maybe I was hoping to capture some of my youth. I’d be stuck inside on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and because the T.V. didn’t have a remote, I’d end up watching (out of sheer laziness) some poorly-dubbed Italian film featuring some herculean he-man throwing his weight around. Now I’m an adult laid up with the flu and stuck with watching this DVD from Netflix. If I wanted to see something else on my queue, I’d have to pop it into the mail. The horror is that two weeks later I’m still recovering from the bug, and this was the first of a double-feature DVD. I’ve suffered enough. The disc is back in the mail—with the second feature unwatched.
Mark Monlux is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. The bulk of his work has been in the adverting and publishing world, his work in recent years has turned to various aspects of Graphic Facilitation; Ideation Illustration, Cartoon Reporter, Sketchnotes, and Whiteboard Animation. He co-founded The C.L.A.W. and is a member of the Graphic Artist Guild, the National Cartoonists Society, and Cartoonists Northwest. He lives in Fern Hill with his loving wife.
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