He also enjoyed reading pulp sci-fi books and was a world-class target archer, winning many trophies and medals.
[2] In the mid to late 1930s, Malcolm started working as a freelance artist for the various pulp publishers in Chicago.
In the later part of 1959, Malcolm moved his family to Huntsville, Alabama, where he worked as a concept artist and animator for the Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA.
While at NASA, Malcolm worked with Fred Ordway who became the technical adviser for the Kubrick movie 2001:a Space Odyssey.
Throughout his career he became friends with many other artists, writers, scientists and engineers including: Virgil Finlay, Ray Paul, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Wernher von Braun.