Yaroslav Horak working on the Cop Shop newspaper strip adapted from the Australian television show.
Another Mike Steel Desert Rider instalment from Australian magazine Woman’s Day by Yaroslav Horak and Roger Rowe. Mike Steel Desert Rider ran for almost a decade in Woman’s Day during the 1960’s.
When I was young lad in the early 1980’s I would avidly read my Nana’s women’s magazines for those three panels of Mandrake the Magician in The Australian Woman’s Weekly and the Star Wars newspaper strip in the New Zealand Women’s Weekly. By the mid nineties I was a fully grown adult and had discarded childish pursuits such as comics and skateboarding and thus missed the Channel Eleven comic that featured in New Idea magazine for several months during 1995. I’m not too familiar with Australian television but I believe it is a soap opera based around fictitious characters who interact with Australian celebrities of the time. I can find no mention of this comic online but Google tells me scripter Adrian S. Tame is a veteran reporter and author whilst artist Vasja Koman is a Slovenian educated Illustrator and Melbourne resident.
Mike Manly - Miracle Man was serialised in Women’s Day during 1954. Written by Ivan Southall (1921 - 2008) and illustrated by Peter James, Mike Manly involved a young Australian scientist who creates a ray that enables him to do anything he wishes, this leads to conflict with evil government powers. Ivan Southall was a prolific and popular writer of young adult fiction and as far as I know this was his only contribution to Australian comics.
Below: The Vastly detailed linework of Keith Chatto from COOEE No. 4, unfortunately poorly served by the reproduction and paper of the time. Chatto put a great attention to background in his work, I presume using location and model photos for reference.
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