Keith Chatto

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Keith Chatto
Born
Ronald Keith Chatto

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Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
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OccupationCartoonist, writer, illustrator
GenreAdventure, crime, westerns, Pulp Fiction

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Ronald Keith Chatto (1924 – 22 October 1992) was an Australian comic book artist and writer. He was the first Australian illustrator to draw a full-length episode of The Phantom comic.[1]

Biography

Keith Chatto was born at Kogarah, New South Wales in 1924,[2] the son of an accountancy clerk.[3] Chatto was educated at Kogarah Primary School, Canterbury High School and Sydney Grammar School.[2][3][4] His father, an accountant for Smith's Weekly,[3] showed his son's sketches to the art staff at the magazine, where he was invited by Jim Russell to attend weekly art classes.[1][2][5] On leaving school Chatto found work with the art department of Greater Union Theatres[2][3][5][6] then drawing aircraft recognition charts for the Australian Air Training Corps[3] before enlisting with the RAAF.[5]

Following his demobilisation in 1946 he had his first comic strip published, Destiny Scott, in the mid-week children's section of the Sydney Morning Herald[1][2][3][4][5][6] on 26 June 1946.[7] Also, in 1947, Chatto produced two comic strips for a nudist magazine, The Australian Sunbather, which was published by Ashworth Publications.[5] When Destiny Scott ended he contributed to the All-Australian Comics group on Bunny Allen,[1][8] The Glamour Girl and The Buccaneer.[3][5]Template:QuoteIn 1949 Chatto created The Lone Wolf for Atlas Publications,[2][3][4][9] which was later drawn by Yaroslav Horak,[10] and in 1954 created Steven Carlisle for Larry Cleland Publishing Company.[3][5][11] By 1955 Chatto branched out to other forms of commercial art including magazine illustrations, record sleeves and cover illustrations for pulp fiction novels, where in the 1950s he was produced upwards of six covers a week.[12][13] He also worked on The Twilight Ranger[14] and El Lobo[9] at Cleveland Publishing.[8]Template:Quote With the introduction of television Chatto left the comic book industry to become a freelance film producer[4][6][13] and cine cameraman.[15] He continued to work in the comics field on a part-time basis drawing comic book covers for Page Publications and a series of Skippy comics[2][6] in 1967.[16] Unfortunately the comic book was produced after the television series had peaked in popularity.[2] In mid 1977 he began drawing the Sunday version of Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors,[2][4] having previously ghosted the strip for a short period in 1972.

In 1990 saw the publication of the first Australian-written and drawn full-length Phantom story, Rumble in the Jungle, with Chatto providing the illustrations[13][17][18] and Jim Shepherd the storyline.[19] Chatto followed this by illustrating two more Phantom stories, Return of the Singh Brotherhood[18] and The Kings Cross Connection in 1992,[6] again collaborations with Shepherd.

Chatto died of cancer on 22 October 1992[2] at the age of 67.[5][6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kent, Simon (1 November 1992). "A talented life on the drawing board". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shiell, Annette (1998). Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s–1990s. Redhill, South Australia: Eluga Media. p. 115. ISBN 1-876308-12-5.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ryan, John (1979). Panel by Panel – An Illustrated history of Australian Comics. Cassell Australia. pp. 190–192. ISBN 0726973769.
  4. ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kerr, Joan (1996). "Ronald Keith Chatto". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ray, Greg (2007). "Keith Chatto 1924–1992". Collecting Books & Magazines. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Keith Chatto – Tribute". The Black and White Artists Club. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Australian Comic Strips in the 'Herald'". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 June 1946. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  8. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burrow, Tony; Stone, Grant (1994). Comics in Australia & New Zealand: The Collections, The Collectors, The Creators. Haworth Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-56024-664-0.
  9. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Patrick, Kevin (19 April 2008). "El Lobo – The Man from Nowhere". Comicsdownunder.com. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Atlas". AusReprints. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Steven Carlisle Illustrated Adventures". AusReprints. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cabinet 13: Science Fiction & Fantasy". The Pulp Fiction Exhibition – Special Collections. Otago University. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  13. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnson-Woods, Toni (2004). Pulp: A Collector's Book on Australian Pulp Fiction Covers. National Library of Australia. ISBN 978-0-642-10766-4.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Patrick, Kevin (19 April 2008). "Comics of the Airwaves: The Twilight Ranger". Comicsdownunder.com. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Australian Films. National Library of Australia. 1969. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Morris, Frank. "Skippy, Australia's most famous kangaroo". Grand Pacific Tours. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Phantom No. 951A". Mirror of the World. State Library of Victoria. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  18. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Keith Chatto – Chronological Listing". ComicBookDatabase. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shedden, Brian (7 August 1999). "The Phantom in Australia". Retrieved 12 December 2011.

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