John Malloy
John Malloy AKA FLuX (born September 19, 1975) is an American fine artist, illustrator, designer, and sequential artist. His illustrations and designs have appeared in advertising, packaging, magazines, cd covers, apparel, on the web, and in posters, with clients ranging from Peace Tea to Diesel to Business Week. His fine art employs a variety of media, including pen & ink, oil & acrylic paint, and digital.
Early life
Malloy was born and raised in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, and began drawing at the age of 6. His father, a cemetery-caretaker, and mother, a coal-miner’s daughter, encouraged him to pursue his talents. Later, he earned a strong background in trompe l'oeil 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 Band, 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 Yankee Candle, Monster Energy, and others.