Paul Mason

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Gender Male
Industry Student
Occupation Lecturer in Art Direction, Comic Book Illustrator, occasional writer.
Location Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction Doctor of Visual Arts. Lecturer/Convenor of Art Direction: Visual Story, Animation Pre-production, & Sequential art at Griffith Film School, Griffith University, QCA. Illustrator of KID PHANTOM for Frew Publications. Writer/illustrator of THE SOLDIER LEGACY comic book/graphic novel series. Illustrator for ELDRITCH KID: BONE WAR for Gestalt Comics (out 2017). 4th Degree Black Belt, & 6 x World Championship ITF Taekwon-do competitor for Australia, and 2 x Assistant Coach. Also published in titles such as 'The Dark Detective; Sherlock Holmes' for Black House Comics, ComicOZ, DarkOZ, Cloud9 (Trail #3), The New Adventures of the Human Fly #1, SDCC Magazine, Cthulhu: Deep Down Under, Tides of Hope comic anthology. A guest of OZ Comic-Con and Supanova Expo, Australian Comic Arts Festival, Brisbane Writer’s Festival, ZICS, USQ Bookcase, Comic Con-Versation 2017. Comic book workshop teacher for clients such as the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane Square Library, Toowoomba City Library, The Grove Library in WA, University of Southern Queensland, Starlight Foundation, and the Australian Comic Arts Festival in Canberra. Sometimes, I sleep.
Interests Animation, Comic Books, Drawing, Films, Taekwon-do, Boxing, Fitness, Muhammad Ali, The Phantom, Thrash Metal/Rock music.
Favorite Movies Too many to name :) Currently on a Western, and Clint Eastwood film kick…obsessed with 'Creed', from a love of 'Rocky'.
Favorite Music Big metal/Rock fan: Metallica, AC/DC, Black Label Society, Rage Against the Machine, etc. but appreciate a good Sinatra song too.
Favorite Books Anything with Jack Kirby, the Phantom or Muhammad Ali's name on it. Anything on Animation, comic book history or critical analysis. 1960's Marvel comics...this could go on for a while, I'd better stop :)