Youi Commercial featuring Soldier Legacy makes Bleeding Cool news!

Thanks to my good friends Chris Sequeira and Jason Franks, International comic book and pop culture website Bleeding Cool posted a news article about the TV commercial and the Soldier Legacy /Black House presence at King's comics.

See it here!: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/10/09/australian-insurance-tv-ad-turns-to-comic-stores/

The Soldier Legacy on National TV, thanks Youi!

A bit of a personal message today, but since I had a bit of a win against the universe today, I hope you will grant me a reprieve :)

Below are links to the 2 national TV commercial by the clever people at Filmsmiths Australia for the purpose of advertising for YOUI insurance. These are significant to me as they quite prominently feature my creator-owned comic book series 'The Soldier Legacy', published by Black House comics. These were uploaded thanks to who I only assume is the Director Bryan Cawood (nice work :D). I hope you come across them also on Channel 7!

I'm sure Baden at Black House comics will shortly spill the beans, or let cats out of bags, or feed cats beans (getting off track) regarding the good people who made this commercial possible. It is something that one of my best mates, mentor and pro writer Chris Sequeira has dubbed " part of Aussie comics History" for the book and for Black House Comics. I am humble in this regard; I'm just full of hope. I hope at least some of the general public notice it, I hope some of the Aussie comic community notice it. If it means more good things for Black House and my work in the future, and someone can now point to a superhero/comic character and say 'Hey I know that. That's Australian", then I'd be very stoked.

http://vimeo.com/30121681

http://vimeo.com/30113565

As I've indicated, I was blown away by the release of the Youi Insurance TV commercials featuring my comic book character. As I think I've said before, 12 months ago I didn't think anything close to this would be possible. As you know, it began as a university honours project at the Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University (Southbank) and was a short run self-published comic book which basically grew from my love of Lee and Kirby comics, and my love of Australia, and the potential we have for our own voices and stories in superhero/action comics. Sure, the news today for me is a little bitter-sweet, as I have some personal stuff taking up some head space and total excitement at the moment (doesn't it always folks), but to see this, AND have Soldier Legacy #3 a mere few hours away from total completion, makes the lack of sleep and sunshine not so crushing.

So early night tonight for me is the plan (did I just jinx myself?) and a massive day tomorrow catching bad guys :P Maybe a long overdue gym session in the morning is on the cards, to celebrate :D (...If I can get up that early ;P)

I want to thank my family, friends, the fans of the books, and the professionals that have given me the time of day, in helping me to get to this step so far in reaching my goals.

And I know I can be hard to reach, I actually related to a Pro Artist's comments the other day who was asked "Wow! it must be cool to drawing for a living", to which he replied with something like "Yeah, except it's usually 3am and your friends and family hate you ;p"

More to come on this. I also want to mention (Cool) Shite on the Tube and Comics Masterclass (hosted by the Australian Society of Authors) for posting the links on their Facebook pages. Thanks heaps!

Gotta run, these pages unfortunately won't print-prep themselves ;P

The Soldier Legacy in Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes!

The Cover for Soldier Legacy #3, heading to wrap up production in a week :D Meanwhile...

The cat's out of the bag!

But what part will the Soldier Legacy play in this month's release of Black House Comic's 'Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes #7' ?

Check out the new website for the DDSH series http://www.thedarkdetective.com/?p=1 where you will find Oscar Winner Dave Elsey's fantastic cover mentioning the Dr Nikola story inside!

More to come ;D

OZCOMIC Entry: The Hulk!

Ok, when you have a DD: Sherlock Holmes deadline due that day, and a Solider deadline due in 2 weeks, you really have to focus on your work.

What's that? OzComics is holding a drawing challenge on 'The Hulk'?! Jack Kirby's Hulk?!

An Hour of frantic scribbling later:

2 Hours of frantic scanning and colour slapping:

Ummm. Settle down Paul :P Get back to work.

Go vote here ;D http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=264516923579489&set=a.264516836912831.66323.241043559260159&type=1&theater

Thanks for putting up with my nonsense and obsession all :)

Colour Snippets sneak peek

Our Heroes from the upcoming Issue 3: Didn't want to give too much away by posting entire pages, so this is all you get...for now :D

Tribute to Gene Colan for Future Cover

Just wanted to share the penciled version of the future cover for 'The Soldier Legacy #4'. As one of the artist greats of the Silver Age of Marvel comics, the late Gene Colan, passed away earlier this year and I wanted to pay tribute to his wonderful and iconic 'Invincible Iron Man #1' cover from 1968.

The coloured version will feature in the upcoming release of Soldier Legacy 3 in October.

Great little article from QCA :D

http://www.qcagriffith.com/2011/09/paul-masons-the-soldier-legacy/

Really have to get back to it, but just wanted to post this nice article about the great news I received regarding my comic book series. I really appreciate the Uni being enthusiastic about the news.

The support is very touching. Thank you.

The Soldier goes international! at the 5th Jilin International Animation and Comics Exhibition, China 2011

Thank you to my associate uni project supervisor Andi Spark for arranging the images and providing me with photos from her recent trip to the 5th Jilin International Animation and Comics exhibition in China this month. I am very appreciative to have the work exhibit overseas at this event and for her to arrange this to occur. These images were part of the recent Gympie Regional Gallery exhibit "Drawing and Animation" arranged by QCA, taken straight from issue 2 of the comic. I believe there was talk of the entire exhibition moving up to Mackay, unsure if these is going to occur, or has already occurred, but I will find out.

Anyways, thanks all :D

More good new today! Black House comic official page

http://blackhousecomics.com/the-soldier-legacy.html

Baden from Black House comics has uploaded the info related to 'The Soldier Legacy' comic series, including issue synopses as they occur :D

Colour Sneak Peek of the Kirby tribute page from #3

A couple of months ago, I showed the pencil version of this page, and felt considering the TV Ad news, I was compelled to show the coloured version. Composition-wise, it's my tribute to all those wonderful Jack Kirby war comics, and panels that feature the soldier/citizen in the foreground, normally yelling orders to an (off page) army, with the great Kirby Mechanical menace plowing through the background. The horizontal full page spread is a convention I've noticed in some of John Romita Jr's work, and really liked the idea of utilizing the page in this regard to convey part of the story that needs that orientation. The image will be published in next month's 'Soldier Legacy #3', published by Black House comics.

I've been trying to find the right page to show an example, but Google let me down :P I believe a good example was in this issue of Sgt. Fury, plus bits and pieces from 'The Losers' below. Kirby fans know what I'm talking about ;) Anyways, back to the grindstone :D Thanks guys.