I'm a painter and illustrator, writer , editor and teacher working on the west coast of the U.S.A..

 

I've been more or less committed to drawing and writing since I was about thirteen. That's more than half a century these days.

 

WARNING:

 

ALL postings of comments on my work must be text ONLY. All work by other artists, Flickr members or not ( such as Salvador Dali, whom I have a strong antipathy toward), "awards", symbols, trademarks, colophons, moving signs or brassards, etc. will be DELETED without further notice.

 

I welcome your TEXT ONLY comments.

 

NO, repeat, NO active links ( or inactive) to products or services OF ANY KIND offered for sale may be posted under your text comments on my work. Information links of various kinds may be excepted. BUT, my site is not a "venue" for your advertising. I'm sorry but my view of sales of art and art as "product" is different from most of the artists I know or have met.

 

Here is a comment I made on the JKPP site which represents my view:

  

NCMallory says:

 

Most of you know by now I never sell my work and destroy most of it.

 

But my work is wide open for theft for any good cause. Please feel free to use any of my JKPP stuff for any good purpose. I always appreciate being notified before my work appears in publications.

 

By every measurement available to me I have concluded that JKPP folks are fine people.

 

What are the purposes I deny my work for?

 

Anyone who:

 

Promotes hate or war, either for political , religious, racial, gender-related, (gay-bashing) or any similar reasons may not use my work.

 

Any use of my work even remotely related to cruelty to animals is strictly forbidden.

 

Use of my work by commercial corporations whose ambitions and actions worsen the poverty, starvation and basic human rights of people anywhere on planet Earth is strictly forbidden to the extent I can control such use.

 

( watch DEMOCRACY NOW! with Amy Goodman, friends!) Watch Amy's hour-long interview with film-maker and novelist John Sayles:

  

www.democracynow.org/2011/7/4/a_moment_in_the_sun_an

 

The themes that interest Sayles often are the themes that interest me . . .)

   

Anyone who uses my work to promote "products" of any kind, or to enlarge his/her own commercial "leverage" is not welcome to my work.

 

While I don't make that many images of pop culture figures, my wish is that my work not appear on t-shirts, lunch boxes, tote bags or other related items.

 

I have no objection to my work being used for the exploration of outer space-- but never to place commercial messages, (such as Ronald Reagan advocated), on spacecraft or, for example, McDonald's "golden arches" in moon craters.

 

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PLEASE:

 

If you use my work from Flickr, give me credit-- that is true whether or not you use it in paper publication or on the Net. ALSO PLEASE notify me in advance of any publication of my work you plan, in either medium described above.

 

ALSO : I try to answer technical questions about my work on the regular comments section under my posted images.

 

If you have a short, answerable question about technique and send it to me in FlickrMail or e-mail, I'll try to answer it in a straightforward way. Example of an unanswerable question:

 

What do you consider good art?

 

I DO NOT ordinarily recommend brands of art materials. Best to experiment around on your own. If I do recommend something, I'll do it in my image comment replies. But ordinarily I'll talk only about my own materials and experience.

 

I cannot connect you with any publishers or agents. My own powers in such areas amount to less-than-pitiful.

 

Thanks,

 

NCM

     

I joined FLICKR in 2007.

 

An interview with me by Susan Henderson of LITERARY MARKETPLACE ( archived at LITPARK) is available here:

 

litpark.com/2006/08/31/norman-mallory/

 

for anyone who might want to know more about my likes and dislikes.

 

Flickr comrade Dan Morelle of the UK has published a chat with me here:

  

www.interviewr.net/nc-mallory/

  

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY contains a notice written by Rama Hughes on my work:

 

illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/07/03/the-virtuosity-of-...

 

POETS AND ARTISTS magazine will publish work of mine in their fall issue, 2009

  

www.poetsandartists.com./

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Le Monde, Der Freitag, U.K. Guardian, POETS AND ARTISTS, RUNE, GLORY, THE APOSTLE, PLATEFORM (Paris, Fr.) and dozens of obscure and practically unknown literary magazines

 

My work is on the cover of, and enjoys a feature spread in DOWNTOWN L.A. MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL, Sept. 2010 issue-- which is here:

  

downtownlalife.tripod.com/index.html

 

My illustrations have been published in national and international periodicals ( LE MONDE, DER FREITAG among others), including this recent illustration of John Le Carre published on the front page of the German ( also international-- including arrangements for translated portions in the UK GUARDIAN AND UK INDEPENDENT) newspaper DER FREITAG:

 

The archived version doesn't show a facsimile front page, but scroll down here and you will see one--under Thorsten's comment . . .

 

(link)

   

www.flickr.com/photos/augustusswift/4514760392/

 

My work was also published in LE MONDE (Paris) in the Art and Architecture section. Here's a facsimile of the page and the beginning of the article by Michel Ofray-- with my illustration:

  

www.flickr.com/photos/augustusswift/5826747650/in/photost...

 

WORLDCRUNCH/ LE MONDE link:

 

worldcrunch.com/jean-paul-sartre-his-own-words-brace-your...

    

FLUSTER MAGAZINE (in English and Italian) did an interview and a pictorial feature on my work here:

  

flustermagazine.com/

 

PLATEFORM (Art and Photography, Paris, France) will publish a portfolio of 20 of my paintings and drawings in their August, 2012 issue/ Nr. 44. ( p. 28, et al)

 

www.plateformag.com/numero-44.html?lang=fr

 

A drawing of mine is scheduled to appear in the Feb. 2012 production of a tv program about Robert A. Heinlein, the science fiction writer, produced by Ridley Scott, on the DISCOVERY channel.

    

MY BLOGS: .

 

DANGER GALAXY

 

dangergalaxy.blogspot.com/

 

( not just for sci-fi illustration)

 

AND

 

MALLORY COMIX

  

wwwumbrellablackcom.blogspot.com/

 

( graphic narratives, experiments in "notebook-style" storytelling, prose illustrated and other madness, fragmentation and gallimaufry . . .)

 

On my blog I'll post sketches, drawings and ideas not posted on FLICKR. Stories, poems and essays are also a possibility. I don't intend a diary, but a parallel "diasporic" rattling on.

 

Dreams, anointings and exorcisms are also blog possibilities.

       

contact me at:

 

gustonjoy@gmail.com

 

View samples of my work on FLICKRIVER

  

  

My obscure books of poetry and drawings are available at 428 world libraries.

  

--N