Alter Ego cover

A recent cover piece I did for Alter Ego mag. Poor Dan Cox did the colours and took the brunt of the barrage of editorial corrections to the period costumes of the characters. This was the second version of the cover I did but I wasn't happy with the result and luckily they went for my final design which I thought was more dynamic. Dan and I are gluttons for punishment so we went back for more and our second Alter Ego cover collaboration will be available to view soon ... if I can be bothered to post it here!

Updates and why bother?

I gave up updating this blog for ages because I wasn't getting any feedback. I've been steadily loading new work on my Facebook page because I'm guaranteed an instant response. In any case for those of you who give a care, I'll put a few less frequent posts here but look for me on Facebook if you want more up to date info on the strange beast that is my so called 'career'!

Ghastly Awards

I've been nominated in the 2013 Best Inker category for my work in EEEK!

The Harlequin

The Harlequin

Here's todays instalment ... sorry about the lack of colour!

Propaghanda of the Dead continues ...

Harlequin cover art

The Harlequin ... continues!

The Harlequin

An exciting new unpublished work starts here - today! This was intended to be the second issue of The Harlequin, written and drawn by me. The first issue is available on my Lulu shop http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jasonpaulos

Roger Langridge ... clever bugger.

Two wonderful pinups of the 'old school' look Hairbutt. Check out Rog's blog on my blogroll ... he only gets 10 hits a day, tsk tsk hotelfred.blogspot.com/‎

Australian comic shop ads

Back in the day I used to have to offset the costs of printing my comics by selling ads to comics shops. In the early ninties I could rely on Kings Comics (George Vlastaras) for a juicy full colour back cover ad and Phantom Zone (Glenn Ford) would always take the inside back cover - the prime spots! Eventually Kings dropped out and it became harder and harder to recoup my costs ... the early Hairbutt newwstand editions would hardly ever sell beyond 13-17% ... which left a heck of a lot of unsold copies to throw/give away. Later I found out the distributors would dump bundles of copies that remained in the back room unopened, but that's another story! I really appreciated the response from Comic shops and rarely encounted any negativity. One popular Perth store repeatedely refused to put my calls through to the manager. One Queensland store raved about the dummy copy of 'Soft Boiled Tales' I sent ... 'best Australian comic ever' etc etc ... but next time I called the guy virtually hung up in my ear. Sheesh ... I'm just trying to start an Australian comics industry here! Gimme a break!

Those were the days ...

Green Lantern

My 5 page contribution DC's 'Bizarro World' book 2. Story by Jason Yungbluth.

Fred The Clown

Roger Langridge and I did a pinup swop ages ago ... I'll post his portrait of my character Hairbutt The Hippo soon!

Process video

HELLBOY B.P.R.D. Pinups for Ozcomics

My Ozcomics challenge entry ...

Massive sketch dump part 1

I just discovered an old back up CD packed full of primo Paulos artwork dated before or around the year 2000 or so ... I'm going to progressively upload them here ...