David Malki ! is a professional movie trailer editor, having contributed to marketing campaigns for every major movie studio.  He holds a degree in film production, has worked as a freelance firearm specialist for movies and television, and is an avid airplane pilot. He lives a life of unmotivated malaise in Los Angeles with his wife Nikki, and he loves kittens.

David spells his name with an exclamation point, insisting that one space be left between the punctuation and the "i" in his last name, for aesthetic reasons.  It should be considered an honorific and used in the same manner that one would use "Jr.", "Ph.D", or "Esq."  The exclamation point is not pronounced in any way, though many have tried, often with hilarious results.

The images used to create Wondermark are culled largely from David's collection of 19th-century books and periodicals, supplemented by primary sources from the Rare Books Dept. at the Los Angeles Central Library, as well as (in a shrinking number of cases) material from commercial clip-art collections.  Wondermark began in April, 2003 and is currently read by loads of people both online and in print in The Onion and elsewhere.

You are absolutely welcome to contact David for any reason whatsoever by emailing dave at wondermark dot com. He is pretty good at returning emails, but not quite as good as he is at talking about himself in the third person.

You are also welcome to write David a letter! His address is: 2554 Lincoln Blvd. #214, Venice CA 90291. If you write him a letter he will do his darndest to write you one back! Inspired by Charlie Brown, he tried to find a pencil-pal as a kid, but was met with little luck. For about a year, however, he did correspond with Jeana Yeager, co-pilot of the Voyager airplane which made the first non-stop flight around the world. He was six at the time.

If you are interested in donating financially to help support Wondermark, you may do so by hovering your cursor over the following image and depressing the mouse button:

If you donate, David will send you a drawing in the mail as a thank-you. He does not promise that it will be any good, but it might be.

FOLLOWING ARE SOME THINGS FOR YOU

If you use Firefox, Moti wrote a neat, Wondermark-specific script for Greasemonkey that expands the (normally truncated) title text that appears when you hover over images! There also exists another plug-in that is more general and works on other sites as well.

Below are some link buttons and a wallpaper for you!

Hey, are you slick at making animated GIFs? I'm not! But if someone would like to make some crazy-cool LiveJournal icons or whatever it is the kids are always on about nowadays, I will totally put them up here!

whoops I mean David will put them up here