David Malki !

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2009

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

David Malki ! is the creator of the webcomic Wondermark. It's a surreal gag strip, with pictures lifted from 19th century magazine illustrations.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Brian from Dallas.
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0:10.8	Thanks.
0:11.6	Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:14.0	I'm Jesse Thorn, and this is the Sound of Young America
0:16.9	from MaximumFun.org.
0:18.9	It's the Sound of Young America.
0:41.2	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:42.2	My guest on the program is David Melkey.
0:45.6	He is the creator of the webcomic strip.
0:48.6	Thundermark, which has recently been collected
0:51.2	into its first collection with a major publisher,
0:55.2	which is called Beards of Our Four Fathers.
0:58.3	The strip recontextualizes turn of the century engravings
1:03.8	into quarter amounts to a gag strip with very contemporary themes.
1:10.2	Oh, also unrelated.
1:12.3	David Melkey spells his name with two spaces
1:15.6	and an exclamation mark.
1:17.8	David, welcome to the Sound of Young America.
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