David Malki !
Author of This Is How You Die
About the Author
Image credit: Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
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Works by David Malki !
Classy Lady Like You Will Love the Smell of My Butt: The Best Animal Comic Strips from Wondermark (2012) 8 copies
Associated Works
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010) — Editor — 998 copies, 41 reviews
I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections (2009) — Contributor — 153 copies, 9 reviews
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects (2014) — Contributor — 75 copies, 4 reviews
William Shakespeare Punches a Friggin' Shark and/or Other Stories (2017) — Illustrator — 45 copies, 1 review
Hit Reblog: Comics That Caught Fire (comiXology Originals) (2020) — Contributor — 13 copies, 1 review
Starshipsofa Stories Vol 3 — Illustrator — 4 copies
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- Malki !, David
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- movie trailer editor
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comic book writer - Short biography
- David Malki ! is the author of the comic strip “Wondermark”, a gag strip created entirely from 19th-Century woodcuts and engravings, AKA a collaboration with the dead. In 2009, the Wondermark collection Beards of our Forefathers was nominated for the Eisner Award — the highest honor in comics — for “Best Humor Publication.” It’s possible that this was a clerical error. His voice can also be heard on the podcast Tweet Me Harder.
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This is the second anthology of stories (and some cartoons) featuring the Machine of Death. (The first, imaginatively enough, was called Machine of Death.) What is the Machine of Death? It's a mysterious device that, when provided with a blood sample, will tell you how you die. It's short on details, and its answers are sometimes ambiguous, cryptic, or downright misleading, but they're never, ever wrong. No matter what you do.
A lot of the stories in this one expand the original idea in new directions. Some put versions of the death machine into different historical periods, the far future, or alternate fantasy worlds. Others toy a bit with the question of how the machine works in the first place. There are several that deal with the idea of fake machines and quite a few that take the idea that a person's death prediction never changes and enjoy trying to find a loophole in it, while others continue to explore the questions of how individuals and societies respond to such a thing.
And my feeling about this volume is much the same as with the first one. Individually, most of these stories aren't necessarily incredibly well-written or interesting (although there some very good exceptions). But a whole kaleidoscope of different explorations and interpretations of this idea is truly compelling, more than enough so to keep me engaged through two fairly thick books.… (more)
A lot of the stories in this one expand the original idea in new directions. Some put versions of the death machine into different historical periods, the far future, or alternate fantasy worlds. Others toy a bit with the question of how the machine works in the first place. There are several that deal with the idea of fake machines and quite a few that take the idea that a person's death prediction never changes and enjoy trying to find a loophole in it, while others continue to explore the questions of how individuals and societies respond to such a thing.
And my feeling about this volume is much the same as with the first one. Individually, most of these stories aren't necessarily incredibly well-written or interesting (although there some very good exceptions). But a whole kaleidoscope of different explorations and interpretations of this idea is truly compelling, more than enough so to keep me engaged through two fairly thick books.… (more)
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Except for one story - where the prediction is exactly how the creature is going to end up... guess you'll just have to read the book to find out which one!… (more)