CONVENTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

As part of Paul's publishing career, Paul has had the good fortune and opportunities to have been invited as a comic book guest to a variety of pop culture conventions, writers' festivals and panel presentations across Australia since 2012.

Comic book guest of Oz Comic-Con pop culture conventions:

Melbourne: 2012 – 2017
Perth 2013 - 2017
Adelaide 2013 – 2017
Sydney 2014 - 2017
Brisbane 2014 - 2017, 2019, 2022 - 2024.

Comic book guest for Supanova Pop Culture Expo:

Melbourne 2012, 2013
Gold Coast April 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020 (cancelled)
Brisbane 2012 – 2015, 2019
Signing with Frew Publications Sydney 2017 - 2019, 2023.

Panels at the shows have been on a variety of topics, ranging from Australian comics and publishing history, visual storytelling, pop culture, Kid Phantom and Frew Publication-related activities, The Phantom, and Gestalt Comics. Paul has had the pleasure of speaking on stage with a number of national and international comic book illustrators, writers, artists and editors, including (and in no particular order):

Nicola Scott, Andrew Constant, Jeff Weigel, Douglas Holgate, Tristan Jones, Jon Sommariva, Wolfgang Bylsma, Anthony Marquis, David Dunstan, Scott Allie, Glenn Ford, Justin Randall, Christian Read, Dean Rankine, Mark Sexton, Queenie Chan, James Brouwer, Michel Mulipola, Christopher Sequeira, W. Chew Chan, Emily Smith, Katie Houghton-Ward, Trev Wood, Jamie Johnson, Jeremy MacPherson and David Yardin.

Paul has also been a guest at:

2024: Melbourne Comic and Toy Fair, September 22.
2024: Metro Comic Con, Melbourne VIC. 13 - 14 July.
2024: Genre Con 2024: In Conversation: Getting Graphic with Graphic Novels - panel with C.S Pacat, SLQ QLD February.
2023: Opening of The Phantom: Off The Drawing Board art exhibition, Bundaberg Regional Galleries, QLD 17 - 18th November.
2023: Metro Comic Con, Melbourne VIC. Inaugural event 8th - 9th July.
2022: The Australian Cartoonists Association Stanley Award Conference 2022, Coffs Harbour, NSW.
2022: Bookweek 2022 at Currumbin Valley State School 2022.
Livewire Legends Convention 2019, 2020 & 2017 Starlight Express Room at the Lady Client/Brisbane Children's hospital.
2016 and 2018: The Australian Comic Arts Festival, Canberra.
2018: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at Kings Comics, Sydney CBD, along with Nicola Scott, Andrew Constant, Tom Taylor and Dean Rankine.
2017: USQ Bookcase/Writers' Festival, Toowoomba.
2017: Kid Phantom Launch: Liverpool City Library NSW as part of Comic Conversation.
2017: Guest host of the 29th annual Lee Falk Memorial Bengeli Explorers Club Charity Dinner, (raising money for the Sydney Childrens hospital).
2014: Sugar City Con in Mackay, QLD.
ZICS (Zine and Indie Comic Symposium) in Brisbane 2013 and 2014
The Brisbane Writers Festival:
- 2013: Creator-Owned Comics panel with Eddie Campbell ('From Hell' with Alan Moore), Dylan Horrocks, and Zac Smith-Cameron.
- 2022: Outside the Frame (LoveYA) with Jessica Walton, Alyssa Mason, and Lauren Boyle - hosted by Nova Blakely

Art Exhibitions

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The Phantom: Off The Drawing Board Exhibition 2023-2024

Paul has had his comic artwork on display in the following public exhibitions:

2024: ACE! Australian Comics Exhibition in partnership with the Australian Consulate-General in Shanghai, China Aug - Sept.
2024: ACE! Australian Comics Exhibition in partnership with the Australian Consulate-General in Fangsuo, Chengdu, China Jan - Feb.
2023 - 2024: Kid Phantom interactive exhibit as part of The Phantom: Off the Drawing Board, Bundaberg Regional Galleries, QLD.
2022: Australian Comics: Presented by IllustrateYourLife Comic Art Exhibition in partnership with the Australian Embassy, Thailand. Bangkok Art & Culture Centre - March. Bangkok, Thailand.
2022: Brisbane Square Library: Young Adult Space: Kid Phantom/ The Phantom/FLOCK. January - April 2022. Brisbane CBD, QLD.
2021: Papercuts Comics Festival "Storytelling with a Stylus" Digital Comic Art Exhibition - 1 month. Adelaide, SA.
2019: Brisbane Square Library: Young Adult Space: Kid Phantom/ The Phantom. 3 months. Brisbane CBD, QLD.
2013: "Shadow of A Mouse" Griffith Film School Art Exhibition at the Royal Queensland Art Society Petrie Terrace Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.
2012: 25th Anniversary of Griffith Film School animation and drawing exhibition, QCA. Griffith Film School, Southbank, Brisbane QLD.
2011: 5th Jilin International Animation and Comics exhibition, Jilin, China.
2011: "Drawing aNd Animation" art exhibition: Queensland College of Arts postgraduate exhibition, Gympie Regional Gallery.

Academic Panels

February 2024: Genre Con 2024 panel: In Conversation: Getting Graphic with Graphic Novels - With C.S Pacat at the State Library of Queesland. TBA

September 2023: Valleys Deep, Mountains High - The peaks and troughs of animation practice . CAPA Animation Conference at Griffith Film School. Part of committee and conference chair for panel "Animation and the Pre-Production process". Griffith Film School, Brisbane QLD.

November 2022: I Made This - Presented current comics and publishing projects with Adele K. Thomas, Damian Castellini, Lindsay Foyle, Phil Norrie, and Stuart McMillen at the 2022 Stanleys Conference, Australian Cartoonists Association, Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour.

November 2022: Hosted panel : Long and Short of It, with cartoonists Brenton McKenna (graphic novelist), Andi Spark (animation/artist), Megan Herbert (Cartoonist at The Age, SMH), and Andrew Weldon (The Age, The Big Issue) in relation to cartoonists switching gears and creative mediums. 2022 Stanleys Conference, ACA, Coffs Harbour.

December 2016: The Soldier Legacy - Paper presented in relation to Australian Superhero/Action comics and the development of an Australian hero at the Superhero Identities Symposium. Conducted at ACMI, Melbourne VIC.

"Superheroes and the Real Word" - Panel Discussion - ABC RN Big Ideas program July 2017:

Panel at the QLD Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) on the Opening weekend of "Marvel Cinematic Universe" exhibition.

Featuring:

Professor Jason Bainbridge - Head of the School of Communication, University of South Australia

Ryan Griffen - Creator of the sci-fi television series Cleverman

Dr Naja Later - Sessional Lecturer in Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, and Sessional Academic, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

Dr Paul Mason - Lecturer in Art Direction, Griffith Film School, and comic book illustrator on Kid Phantom (Frew Publications)

Chair: Scott Stephens – Presenter The Minefield and the ABC Religion and Ethics Editor, ABC Online

View Via YouTube: https://youtu.be/d7PKI3qEzTI

2013: Hosted Creator Focus: Len Wein spotlight panel (comic book and animation writer (Marvel, DC), and co- creator of characters such as Wolverine, and Swamp Thing ) as part of the GRAPHIC festival at the Sydney Opera House. The panel was an overview of writer Len Wein's career in comics.