Dr. Paul Mason (DVA) is an award-winning cartoonist, and animation concept designer, who has worked for companies such as Frew Publications (writer/artist of The Phantom, artist on Kid Phantom), Gestalt comics (the Eldritch Kid: Bone War, Talgard), and A Stark Productions (The Deep animated TV series season 4). His work has been in over 50 publications, ranging from comics to illustrations, magazine covers, merchandise, and licensed board game material. He is also a sessional lecturer in storyboarding, art direction, animation pre-production, comics and visual storytelling as part of the Bachelor of Animation program at the Griffith Film School, Griffith University in Queensland.