Let Mark Speak Up for You(a)|虚拟马克，道出职场真心话

『虚拟马克，道出职场真心话』

　　When the 2008 financial crisis hit Taiwan, news of layoffs and people being sent off on unpaid leaves were reported across the media. Under these dismal circumstances, illustrator Mark Lee created a fictional character called Mark in his blog called I'm Mark: Complaints from the Workplace. It voices all sorts of typical gripes from office workers.

　　Lee's comic character Mark has wavy hair, a face shaped like a bowl when seen from the side, and eyes that appear as just two lines. He is often portrayed with a helpless look and messy hair. In one strip from the series titled Everyone Complains About, Mark looks exhausted and unshaven. One day, as he's lifting a heavy parcel, he turns and complains to a colleague, "My life was black and white before I found this job." His colleague enquires, "So what happened after you found it?" Mark replies miserably, "My life became blank!" This and similar exchanges brought strong reactions from office workers, and within a few days, Lee's Facebook page had attracted more than 10,000 likes and over a thousand shares.

　　At 37, Lee created Taiwan's hottest office worker and also gained a reputation as something of a cartoon therapist. A graduate of Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School and the Department of Fine Arts at Chinese Culture University, Lee was a typical employee in the advertising industry. After four years of work in advertising, though, he realized that it wasn't what he wanted to do forever, so in 2005, he quit his job to set up a design company with a friend. Beginning in 2006, Lee started to play with illustrations related to the workplace. Two years later, his fictional office character Mark appeared for the first time on his blog, launching a series of related illustrations.

 

虚拟马克，道出职场真心话

　　2008 年金融危机袭击台湾，各媒体争相报导裁员、无薪假等负面消息。在这些令人沮丧的情况下，图文创作家李含仁在他的部落格『我是马克：五斗米靠腰』中，创造出虚拟人物马克。这个人物替广大的上班族一吐怨气。

　　李含仁创造的漫画人物马克留着一头锯齿状浏海，脸型从侧面看来犹如碗公，眼睛看起来好像两条线。他经常被画成脸带无奈，发丝凌乱的模样。在《人人有腰靠》系列中，马克看起来精疲力竭且满脸胡渣。有一天，他一边搬着重物，一边转头向同事抱怨：『在找到这份工作之前，我的人生是黑白的。』同事反问：『那找到工作之后呢？』马克很悲情地回答：『我的人生就变得空白了！』类似这样的意见交换引发了上班族的强烈回应，几天内，李含仁的脸书粉丝团就吸引了一万多人按赞，并转发分享一千多次。

　　三十七岁的李含仁创造出全台最红的上班族马克，也为自己博得疗愈系部落客的美名。李含仁曾就读复兴美工，毕业于文化大学美术系，他还曾是个广告业界的典型员工。然而，从事了四年的广告工作之后，他意识到这并不是他想一直做下去的工作，因此他在 2005 年辞掉工作，与朋友出来创办设计公司。2006 年开始，李含仁开始构思职场图文创作。两年后，他首次将虚拟人物马克放上部落格，并展开一系列相关的图文创作。