The Artist
Mal Earl is an Author/Illustrator based in the UK.
His influences are diverse and eclectic, ranging from Osamu Tezuka to Sergio Leone via Franz Kafka and Gil Elvgren.
He has a love of Pop Culture encapsulating the American Pulp Magazines of the 30s and 40s, the underground fetish scene of the 1950s, the Spaghetti Western genre and all things Film Noir.
He has produced many submissions to the Small Press Comic field and is the author and illustrator of the current BULLETPROOF NYLON - 'Burlesquenoir' project.
With a planned SPACEHAWK webstrip and the online picturebook, WELKIN as well as the continuation of BULLETPROOF NYLON, 2012 marks his return to the illustration field after some years absence...
we hope you enjoy the results.
Bulletproof Nylon
is an ongoing creative project, informed and inspired by The Pulp Magazines, Hardboiled Crime Literature, and Underground Fetish Culture of Mid-Twentieth Century America.
In text and illustration the project will grow to explore the denizens and environs of an alternative America of the late Nineteen Fifties, in a series of interlocking, convergent tales.
The city of Dores Rib on the eastern seaboard of the United States is the backdrop to a thousand stories in a world where Japan did not feel the terror of the atomic bomb, the space race is on the brink of being won, atomic batteries power the needs of civilization and the ‘Newton Gear’ has revolutionized the fundamentals of travel across the globe.
In the alleyways of 'The Rib', the vigilantes stand side by side with the cops in the fight against increasing lawlessness across the city, and in the shadows above and below the machinations of evil and corruption gather like an unstoppable storm cloud.
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The Fount
A slowly developing project to issue illustrated editions of the classic texts of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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