David Mahler is a visual storyteller from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
creating comics, film and animation
creating comics, film and animation
For inquiries please contact davidcmahler at gmail dot com
2026
Parallel Panels graphic novelist workshop with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature org
Rough and clean up animator on Untitled Michael Cusack Project, produced by Princess Bento
2025
Who Killed Fraidy Cat? - feature article for Animation Obsessive
2024
Wet Hot Chameleon Summer - super-short featured on Frederator's Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel
2023
The Bird Song - 2D animated super-short, producer director and animator
Let's! Revolution! - layout and background artist for a video game trailer produced as part of an animation masters, in collaboration with BUCK Amsterdam, NL
PEP Talk - animated segment for the stage play Jadaïsme, written and directed by Simon Speelman, performed at Concertzall Tilburg, NL
BUT Film Festival trailer - character designer and 2D animator for two festival idents, Breda, NL
Wegwijs Groen Onderwijs - 2D face and lipsynch animator for a series of advertisements produced by Iron Films, Den Bosch, NL
Graduated a masters of animation, Master Institute of Visual Culture, St Joost/Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch, NL
2022
Cosmic Odyssey - official selection, 7th Siding Festival of Film, BC, Canada, and Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival, NSW, Australia
2020
Featured illustrator in The Journey of Gender in Health collaborative paper/info-comic produced by researchers at Trinity College Dublin and Mount Saint Vincent University
2019
Salvation Comes - winner best horror at Seoul WebFest, and winner best director (action or horror) Asia Web Awards
Contributed the comic Tiergarten to Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics for Queer Men published by Ad Astra comix
Portrait of Hans - Adelaide Festival Centre; added to permanent collection and screened as a public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Doug Hoyer - Hive Mind - live action music video, co-produced with Intothehole Productions, HK
DozyBoy - Welcome Back - live action music video, co-produced with Hong Kong Local, HK
Cosmic Echo - Digital Graffiti 2019; public projection, Alys Beach, Florida, and Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Cosmic Waves I - Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Started a three year stint as the Art and Comics Editor at The Suburban Review Magazine
2018
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - Finalist, NCCC Film and Animation Festival, Sanborn, NY, USA, and Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles CineFest, Los Angeles, USA
Artist in residence at Tree Paper risograph studio, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Expression; Repression - Beyond the Rainbow: Pride Art 2018; two paintings in group exhibition of LGBT+ artists curated by Jimmy Twin, presented by Clifford Chance and J. P. Morgan, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cosmic Ocean - solo painting and projection art exhibition, BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Charlie Copper & Lords of Lard - I Think I Have Frostbite - hybrid music video combining live action, miniatures and digital animation
Save Campbell Arcade - investigative documentary produced by Sticky Institute
2017
Signal Screen Arts Commission resident, City of Melbourne. Produced the two-channel projection art piece Cosmic Echo
Junior Catharsis comic collection published by Pikitia Press
2016
Sensational Realities: Crafting the Future of VR - feature article about the VR/live-music project allthestarstheybleedtogether for Melbourne Music Week
Film critic at (the now defunct) 4000 Feet of Film
2015
Ying Li and the Ballet - short documentary produced as part of the Looking Suzhou filmmaking residency, Suzhou, China
Dig a Little Deeper - short documentary produced as part of the Looking Suzhou filmmaking residency, Suzhou, China
Spaces_Places: Travel Sketches by David C Mahler 2008-2015 - exhibition of travel sketches at Brunswick Art Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014
Graduated a Bachelor of Film and Television from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, producing the sci-fi short film Splendor Solis
2013
First graphic novel Deep Park published by Pikitia Press
Parallel Panels graphic novelist workshop with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature org
Rough and clean up animator on Untitled Michael Cusack Project, produced by Princess Bento
2025
Who Killed Fraidy Cat? - feature article for Animation Obsessive
2024
Wet Hot Chameleon Summer - super-short featured on Frederator's Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel
2023
The Bird Song - 2D animated super-short, producer director and animator
Let's! Revolution! - layout and background artist for a video game trailer produced as part of an animation masters, in collaboration with BUCK Amsterdam, NL
PEP Talk - animated segment for the stage play Jadaïsme, written and directed by Simon Speelman, performed at Concertzall Tilburg, NL
BUT Film Festival trailer - character designer and 2D animator for two festival idents, Breda, NL
Wegwijs Groen Onderwijs - 2D face and lipsynch animator for a series of advertisements produced by Iron Films, Den Bosch, NL
Graduated a masters of animation, Master Institute of Visual Culture, St Joost/Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch, NL
2022
Cosmic Odyssey - official selection, 7th Siding Festival of Film, BC, Canada, and Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival, NSW, Australia
2020
Featured illustrator in The Journey of Gender in Health collaborative paper/info-comic produced by researchers at Trinity College Dublin and Mount Saint Vincent University
2019
Salvation Comes - winner best horror at Seoul WebFest, and winner best director (action or horror) Asia Web Awards
Contributed the comic Tiergarten to Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics for Queer Men published by Ad Astra comix
Portrait of Hans - Adelaide Festival Centre; added to permanent collection and screened as a public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Doug Hoyer - Hive Mind - live action music video, co-produced with Intothehole Productions, HK
DozyBoy - Welcome Back - live action music video, co-produced with Hong Kong Local, HK
Cosmic Echo - Digital Graffiti 2019; public projection, Alys Beach, Florida, and Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Cosmic Waves I - Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Started a three year stint as the Art and Comics Editor at The Suburban Review Magazine
2018
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - Finalist, NCCC Film and Animation Festival, Sanborn, NY, USA, and Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles CineFest, Los Angeles, USA
Artist in residence at Tree Paper risograph studio, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Expression; Repression - Beyond the Rainbow: Pride Art 2018; two paintings in group exhibition of LGBT+ artists curated by Jimmy Twin, presented by Clifford Chance and J. P. Morgan, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cosmic Ocean - solo painting and projection art exhibition, BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Charlie Copper & Lords of Lard - I Think I Have Frostbite - hybrid music video combining live action, miniatures and digital animation
Save Campbell Arcade - investigative documentary produced by Sticky Institute
2017
Signal Screen Arts Commission resident, City of Melbourne. Produced the two-channel projection art piece Cosmic Echo
Junior Catharsis comic collection published by Pikitia Press
2016
Sensational Realities: Crafting the Future of VR - feature article about the VR/live-music project allthestarstheybleedtogether for Melbourne Music Week
Film critic at (the now defunct) 4000 Feet of Film
2015
Ying Li and the Ballet - short documentary produced as part of the Looking Suzhou filmmaking residency, Suzhou, China
Dig a Little Deeper - short documentary produced as part of the Looking Suzhou filmmaking residency, Suzhou, China
Spaces_Places: Travel Sketches by David C Mahler 2008-2015 - exhibition of travel sketches at Brunswick Art Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014
Graduated a Bachelor of Film and Television from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, producing the sci-fi short film Splendor Solis
2013
First graphic novel Deep Park published by Pikitia Press
Published works include The Secret Ingredient, Deep Park and Junior Catharsis, through Pikitia Press and Tree Paper Comics