Mark Marek
Mark Marek (not to be confused with the nude photographer of the same name) is a cartoonist and animator whose animations and drawings have been featured in popular media.
Marek created the cover and label art for the (She Was A) Hotel Detective (EP) in 1988 and stop-motion characters and set for the official music video for "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" in 1990, collaborating with J. Otto Seibold. He also designed the early TMBG T-shirts, "Hayseed Johns" and "Worker Johns."
In an interview with This Might Be A Zine, Marek had this to say on the creation of the "Istanbul" music video:
When TMBG contacted me about contributing to their video I suggested stop motion for my part (I was aware that J. Otto Siebold was also contributing). I built the set in my basement (essentially an imaginary Istanbul, but really more inspired by NYC). Having never built stop-motion characters I had no idea how to engineer the armature for animation. As a result, when I brought everything in to the animation studio (I believe it was called Caesar Video, now defunct) they had to rebuild all of the characters (or at least all the joint armature). Embarrassing.
In 2015, he animated the music video for "Underwater Woman" for the 2015 iteration of TMBG's Dial-A-Song project.
Marek was also a character designer and director on the Nickelodeon cartoon anthology series KaBlam!, which in its 1999-2000 season showcased videos for "Doctor Worm" and "Why Does The Sun Shine?".