I'm very honoured and pleased to have been invited to display a sample of my comic work from Frew Publications and Gestalt Comics in Chengdu, China. This is part of ACE! Australian Comics Exhibition, in conjunction with the Australian Consulate-General.The Exhibition is a collection of 20 Australian Cartoonists and artists, of diverse backgrounds and comic styles: "The exhibition will take place in Fangsuo Commune, Chengdu’s leading bookstore and cultural space. The exhibition launch program will feature workshops for art students and younger artists, providing an engaging and innovative ..read more

The 2022 Shortlist was recently announced for the CAAA ( Comic Arts Awards Australia, formerly the Ledger Awards), and I was surprised and humbled to be among the list of great comic book, graphic novel and web comic stories featuring Australian comic makers. The story nominated "It Ain't Me, It Ain't Me", from The Phantom #1886 (2021), is an 8 page story I wrote and drew for Frew Publications, and features Lee Falk's the Phantom in Saigon during the Vietnam War on the eve of the infamous Tet Offensive of 1968. This event kicked off one of the major events of the War, and turned American pub ..read more

Running from 1st of March to 25th March 2022 is Paul's creator-owned series crowdfunding campaign for FLOCK #1. "Sometimes the best stories are the ones told over a beer... Or at least that’s what I’ve heard. Take this old Digger for instance. It’s the 1960s, inner west Sydney. Kentucky Fried Chicken makes its grand opening on our shores. On a quiet sunny day at the pub, this old bloke decides to reflects on his curious life to a mystified bartender. Starting as a boy in The Great War, the yarn becomes a tale that is stranger than fiction, as he reveals his time with the Australian Army in th ..read more

A big thank you to The Australian Society of Authors for accepting my portfolio into their curated ASA Style files. The style files are "A one-stop shop for publishers, advertising creatives, journalists, editors, writers, agents, in fact anyone searching for the very best Australian illustrators." The profile features a few sneak peaks at work on my upcoming creator-owned title FLOCK. https://asastylefile.com/illustrator/dr-paul-mason/ It is an honour to be among the fellow illustrators, including my friend, cartoonist Dean Rankine. I'd also like to thank Zoran Ilievski at Graphic Nature pod ..read more

My next “The Phantom: Vietnam” comic chapter is out next week (31st August), and in colour! A 12 page story (and story cover) I wrote and drew, with assistant editor Amanda Bacchi, edited by Glenn Ford, and published by Dudley Hogarth. The story will appear in colour, and is available now in newsagents and here: https://www.phantomcomic.com.au/collections/new/products/issue-1952-fortnightly-2023 Here's a black and white version of one of the story pages: It’s part of this fantastic collection of new Phantom comic stories in colour: includes friends and peers Andrew Constant, Jason Paulos, Dea ..read more

Thursday 5th October from 3:30pm - 5pm at Caboolutre Library, as part of The Brisbane Children's Writers Festival. I'm be holding a panel thanks to the Queensland Writers Centre and Moreton Bay Regional Council about Drawing for Adventure Comics! The workshop will be FREE for ages 10 - 16 year olds. Bookings essential! https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/libraries/Events/Drawing-For-Adventure-Comics-CAB or here: https://queenslandwriters.org.au/events/drawing-for-adventure-comics-mbrc #paulmason #moretonbayregionalcouncil #caboolturelibrary #brisbanechildrenswritersfestival #queenslandwritersce ..read more

The Phantom: Vietnam series by Paul Mason continues! Three new short stories written and drawn by Paul Mason have been published in recent March and April 2023 issues of Frew Publication's The Phantom, licensed by King Features. These stories form part of Paul's series of stories featuring The Phantom and other Lee Falk supporting characters in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Issue 1940 was released at the end of March, and the story "Said the Joker to The Thief..." set in the Mekong Delta, featured a character from the classic Lee Falk and Sy Barry Daily newspaper comic strip story "The ..read more

https://comicartsaust.com.au/2023-shortlist-announced/ I'm very grateful for the Comic Arts Awards Of Australia shortlisting of my comics from 2022: FLOCK #1, published with Gestalt Comics, and THE PHANTOM #1925 "Until the Final Bell" published by Frew Publications. Thank you to Amanda Bacchi for her fantastic editing efforts on both, Wolfgang Bylsma of Gestalt and Glenn Ford of Frew,( & Dudley Hogarth and Rene White at Frew) for your respective efforts, editorial, design etc. I also want to congratulate my friends and peers Gary Proudly for his comic shortlistings (and inviting me to dr ..read more

I'm very excited to have been invited to Metro Comic Con's inaugural event in Melbourne 2023! Details via the website: https://metrocomiccon.com.au/profile/dr-paul-mason/ Many thanks to the lovely organisers for their kindness and I'm looking forward to catching up with good friends, peers and comic readers at the event. Cheers! #thephantom #frewpublications #gestaltcomics #australiancomics #comics #metrocomiccon #melbourne #victoria #australia #paulmason ..read more

While in attendance at the 2022 Stanleys Conference and 38th Annual Stanley Awards in Coffs Harbour on the 19th of November, I was stunned and honoured to have been awarded with the 2022 Stanley Award for the Comic Book Artist category, by the Australian Cartoonists Association. I was also pleased to have been a finalist for the Animation Cartoonist category, won by the excellent Edmund Iffland. Gallery images to load: (Thanks to Judy Nadin, John Shakespeare, David Pope, Roger Fletcher, Dean Rankine, Brenton McKenna, Edmund Iffland, Nat Karmichael, the National Cartoon Gallery and the Austra ..read more