George Mallia

He has published extensively (in Maltese and English) in his academic fields of interest, also producing an edited volume of papers exploring the use of Social Media in Education, The Social Classroom (2014).

He was chairman of the National Book Council of Malta between 2005 and 2013.

Dr. Mallia has also produced and presented a number of programmes on Maltese national television and radio. In 1996 he won the Broadcasting Authority Award for excellence in broadcasting for his radio analysis of Maltese humour in the series done for Radju ta' l-Università, "Biex Nidhku" ("What we laugh at").

Ġorġ Mallia is one of Malta's best known cartoonists. His cartoons have been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the island. From 1993 to 2008 he produced what was then Malta's only regular socio-political comic strip (One Family) in The Sunday Times.

As an author, Ġorġ Mallia has produced mostly children's books, which he has also illustrated. His Pullu series for very young children is very popular in Malta and has introduced countless children to reading in Maltese. He has also written two collections of experimental short stories for adults. He was editor of the comics series Avventura (Adventure), 1982 and Il-Komik (The Comic), 1983-1984. His books for children also include Ktieb ix-Xwejjaħ (1978), Avventura taħt l-Art (1993), Il-Kukkudrill Eroj (2004), Il-Professur Għasfur (2015), and Sigurd and the Tree of Life (2016). He was co-editor and producer of Malta's best loved children's magazine, Saghtar, and past editor of the short lived national children's magazine HeyU!

Ġorġ Mallia is a communications academic, author and cartoonist working on the island of Malta (born November 9, 1957).