Darrin Mason

Darrin Mason has worked much of his adult life as a freelance cartoonist (he is an Australian Cartoon Award winner) whose work has appeared in a number of Australian newspapers and magazines (People magazine and The Truth newspaper to name but two) and as a producer at 4BC radio in Brisbane, Australia. Throughout his life, he has had the good fortune of meeting and picking the brains of such notables as Vicki Wilson (former Australian netball captain), Patrick McNicholl (multi-millionaire businessman and television actor), Michael Perlin (director and producer of the hit metaphysical film 3 Magic Words), and any number of Australian politicians from both sides of the political fence. Throughout his career as a cartoonist he also met and studied at close quarters the works of the likes of Gary Clark (Swamp comic strip), Malcolm McGookin (The Sunday Mail in Brisbane, Australia), and the late James Kemsley (Ginger Meggs comic strip). In his time as a producer at 4BC he was fortunate enough to have met and learned from the likes of Greg Cary (whose Morning radio show is syndicated throughout Queensland, Australia) and guests too numerous to mention who were and still are specialists in their fields of endeavor. Most important of all, he is a fan of Batman. (The 1960s TV version, the late 1980s/early 1990s Michael Keaton version, and the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale trilogy are the only ones that matter. You can forget the rest). As the Metallica song goes, nothing else matters.