Hello. I'm Mel Cool: Mall Cop.® And all I can say is...



I'm The Sentinel of Stress-Free Shopping. My beat is Massive Mall, world's tallest mall. It's overflowing with crime and misbehavior. At this moment, some rowdy teens are close. Too close.

My authorized biographers are Walt Jaschek and Don Secrease. They're a couple of wise guys but they work cheap. Like me!

You can see Part 1 of "Mystery of the Missing Morons," one of my more bizarre cases, documented by Walt and Don, right here in my Galleries. Part 2 is coming soon.

You can also see how Walt and Don captured one of my early adventures, "Strange Incident on Level 44." It's a Gallery, too, on Walt's site.

Best of all, you can get my original Mall Cop t-shirts and thongs at the Mall Cop Shop on CafePress. Head there now. Just don't go up the down escalator. I can't allow that.

And I won't.

Yours truly,
Mel Cool: Mall Cop
Massive Mall, Missouri

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Mel Cool: Mall Cop is a registered trademark of Paul Fey

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MALL FOR ONE. ONE FOR MALL.

Walt Jaschek writes about Mel Cool: Mall Cop

Mel Cool: Mall Cop has been glaring at me for a long time. And glaring is what a mall cop does best.

The Sentinel of Stress-Free Shopping was co-created by Don Secrease and me in 1987. We produced t-shirts bearing the character and gave them as holiday gifts. Some people still claim to have the surely frayed originals.

(Says Mel himself: "Get a brand-new Mall Cop t-shirt at the Mall Cop Shop. And don't run up the down escalator!")

On those shirts, Mel continued to glare at us, as if to gripe, "When do I get my own comic, lowlifes?"

He got his wish at last in 1995, with the publication of the Mel Cool: Mall Cop Mini-Comic Special. That's the cover at left, and on on my ComicSpace space, you can read the whole thrilling, 12-page story, "Strange Incident on Level 44!"

Reviews of the mini-comic were kind. You can still see copies floating around. Don still sends some out with his eBay comic auctions.

Mel Cool: Mall Cop next appeared in the two-parter, "Mystery of the Missing Morons," by the same creative team. The 11-page episodes were featured in the two-issue humor anthology Slightly Bent Comics #1 and #2 in 1996. Comicbook stores sold about a thousand of the first issue, about 500 of the second. We were ecstatic. Heck. Still are.

Co-publisher on those comics was Paul Fey, with whom I had formed a creative radio advertising business. Paul now runs World Wide Wadio and holds the Mel Cool: Mall Cop registered trademark. So. He's wall to wall.

Next, I wrote a teleplay for the pilot of a Mel Cool: Mall Cop animated cartoon. Thinkin' Cartoon Network, Don and I reimagined the characters for color and animation. Shortly after, screenwriter Cary Anderson and I plotted out a Mel Cool: Mall Cop feature film, and Cary wrote the screenplay. It made the rounds.

And then, from right under our feets came the internets, where Mel has lurked since. MallCop.com is an attempt to bring all of his many loose ends together under one roof. Just like the mall Mel has sworn to defend.

But it's just a taste of the Mel Cool: Mall Cop milieu. Waiting within Massive Mall are despicable villians, loyal comrades, secret lovers, and customers looking endlessly for the food court. Observing from a hidden berth are the Secret Masters of the Mall – mysterious rulers who, if provoked, could prevent civilization from ever...shopping...again.

Maybe this site, and the Mel Cool: Mall Cop history contained within, will stop the guy from glaring at me, at least for a while. But then again, look at the guy.

It probably won't.

-- Walt Jaschek

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