If you happen to find yourself in LA over the next few weeks, be sure to check out this amazing show at Gallery 1988, opening May 20. The show, aptly titled, Another Dimension, showcases 50 artists’ works based on the original Rod Serling TV masterpiece, The Twilight Zone. My piece, Like A Tiny Doll Cut From A Shell And Brought To Life, is based on the episode, Stopover In A Quiet Town, where a married couple wakes up in a dollhouse after a long night of partying, only to find they are captives, and new toys, for a giant alien little girl.

Hitting supermarket shelves everywhere soon, I just wrapped up a logo design and four illustrations for Hansen’s Beverage Co (parent company of Monster Energy) and their new line of all-natural iced teas. Flavors include Razzleberry, Sweet Lemon, Imorted Ceylon, and Green. You can collect all four for 99 cents each. [See more of John Malloy's work]

I love the finely rendered, graphic (yes, rendered and graphic) work of illustrator John Malloy. His charmingly quirky sensibility is the crowning element of his work.

If you’re in or around the Washington DC area, swing by illustrator — and sometime Lost At E Minor contributor — John Malloy’s first full solo exhibition at the Art Whino Gallery in National Harbor. The show which opens on February 21, takes its name — One Out of a Hundred — from his personal series of seven fine art works that center around the side effects of drugs as a metaphor for the media culture’s long-term effects on the human spirit. There will be more than forty limited edition prints and fifty works of original art on display and for sale, including illustration, fine art, and comics work.

The Grind 2.0, a charity auction show to fund construction of the Swift-Cantrell Skatepark in Atlanta, opens on Friday, October 10 at Atlanta’s The Rabbit Hole Gallery. The show features more than 60 hand-painted skate decks painted by some of today’s top underground artists from across America and Europe, and I couldn’t be more excited to be part of it! Other artists include Amy Sol, Dave Kinsey, Chris Stain, Jason Limon, Tara McPherson, Tessar Lo, and many more. The gallery is even offering an online bidding through their website.

John Malloy’s new comics work, Queasy, is appearing in Image Comics’ upcoming POPGUN Anthology Volume Three. Next month he has new comics for Lemon coming out, as well as apparel design for a new line of Wall-Street-themed streetwear which can also be previewed at the Behance Gallery.

Illustrator and artist John Malloy has been working on a graphic novel called Channel One and, without wanting to sound too much like Paris Hilton, it’s looking pretty damn hot. Update! As of July 2009, John Malloy has aborted the graphic novel Channel One to focus more on other projects, including his autobiographical graphic novel, Queasy. Stay tuned for details.

We featured John Malloy’s illustrations a little while back on Lost At E Minor, so we checked in with him to find out — from all the mags that he illustrates for — which one he always reads from cover to cover: ‘Without a doubt Lemon is a great read all the way through. The content is unique, and for the most part centered around things that interest me creatively. It’s also extremely well-executed visually with minimal advertising. The ads that are there appear seamlessly weaved into the layout’. Is there a type of canvas that you would love to illustrate on but haven’t yet? ‘Hmmm. That’s a good question. There are a lot of things I would like to try, like skateboards, fabric, metal, even an outdoor mural’. How do you get in the mood to create? ‘Music. In a way, I think each drawing is like a song with crescendos and decrecendos. I’ll often get visuals of actions and colors from whatever I’m listening to at the time. Lately it’s been Alex Willner [aka The Field], Caribou, and Matmos’. Any illustrators out there that are consistently blowing you away with the quality of their work? ‘For illustrators, I can honestly say I’m always floored by the work of Ray Caesar and James Jean. Generally, though, I’m more inspired by work I see in the fine art world and comics, like the work of Tim Hawkinson, Ronald Rege Jr, and Anders Nilsen, as well as countless — and unfortunately nameless — book cover illustrators from the ’40s through the ’70s’. Tell us about your new graphic novel Channel One? ‘Sure. Well, I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s a story I’ve been researching for and working on for the past two years. It couldn’t be more different from Amnesia [my first book] both in visual style and script. It centers around Ian Fitch, a young American film director who had spent a few years filming and living with an indigenous tribe in the Brazilian rainforest. He returns to New York City with his indigenous wife and child, and is forced to take a job directing a tv sitcom. The story is told using television as a language [most of the comic panels are tv screens], and juxtaposes clips from his jungle documentary and outtakes with video of his present NY tv-studio office life [via security camera footage and his own self-documentary for his child] to put notions of what it truly means to be “civilized” to the test. He eventually discovers a video device that has a magical ability … and it changes his life forever. But that’s as much as I can tell! There’s a preview of some of the first chapter on my site and I’ll be updating it regularly. I’m currently seeking a publisher’.

The latest issue of Lemon magazine features two comic-style interviews by John Malloy with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Pop Levi. Sweet.

John Malloy is a graphic artist and comics creator whose work has been featured in BPM (illustration above) and Dazed & Confused magazine amongst others. As his bio notes, ‘he began drawing cartoons and rock stars at age six. Years later, he trained with one of the world’s most eminent trompe l’oeil painters, and was introduced to comics for the first time at age nineteen. His first graphic novel, Amnesia, emerged a few years later, combining painting, pen and ink with digital media. He currently lives in Baltimore’. [see also Mario Sughi]