Since childhood, Magdi Malky discovered his gift of drawing and story telling. He composed several short stories and illustrated booklets, but kept his gift as a casual hobby, and did not published his artwork.
Studies And Products
Several times he was asked to draw some Sunday School illustrations on flannels, other times drawing on Stage Panels for some plays and several other activities. Convinced of his gift, he started doing some studies in art and painting and he participated several times in some art expositions in Beirut.
TV Broadcasting
Though he was specialized in Electronics and later as a Senior Broadcasting Engineer, he did not forget his hobby and kept drawing cartoons and caricatures in every occasion, even during the Lebanese war.
Sunday School
In 1982, He experienced a spiritual transformation, and as a newborn Christian, he joined an Evangelical Church and soon was asked to draw some Biblical illustrations for Sunday School teachers, till he himself was asked to teach a class of young children.
Lion Books
Once he helped some pre-teens at the church to publish a simple magazine for the congregation. He also participated in drawing some cartoons and a short story for children within the magazine. Having noticed his gifts, church personnel assigned him to join a group of writers, to attend an intensive course on writing
Seminary
In the late 90s, he went to a local Seminary to take some courses in Theology and Hermeneutics.
Walt Disney
In spite of that, he was asked to draw a series of Walt Disney Characters for an exhibition of Walt Disney Toys in Beirut.
At A Publishing House
After his early retirement from TV, where he worked for twenty-nine years as a Senior Broadcasting Engineer and held a position of head of Maintenance, he worked for a short period at a Christian publishing house, as a project manager who had to terminate few pending projects. There he gained some knowledge about publishing books and other materials.
The Birth Of Stories Of Simon
On March 2010, he had a vision to write a series of books on Simon Peter. He was about to write some of his sermonettes on the Apostle, but instead he found himself drawing the scenes he read in the Bible.
Since 2012
“That was my name” was the first book published in 2012, following it he wrote and illustrated his second story, “Simon at the Wedding”. The time he had to spend on writing and drawing these books was too long, because he published them in three languages; Arabic, English and French. Now he is preparing his third book, while building up his study for the fourth edition.
