Paul Mellia

Who is Paul Mellia?

Paul Mellia is a UK airbrush artist and is the only artist officially licensed to copy Marvel characters.

Born in Essex, England in 1954, Paul began drawing comic book characters at the age of 4. He is also dyslexic. He has said, "I couldn't read the stories because the words were jumping around, so it didn't tell me the story. I wanted to draw it to make it look more real to me."

Mellia returned to the UK to establish his studio in London after working in Los Angeles with Disney and Marvel. An exhibition at the Sunset Boulevard Gallery in LA sold out, and Mellia's artwork has sold for prices as high as £59,000.