Keith Chatto
| Keith Chatto | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ronald Keith Chatto 1924 Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 22 October 1992 |
| Occupation | Cartoonist, writer, illustrator |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genre | Adventure, crime, westerns, Pulp Fiction |
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.
Keith Chatto was born at Kogarah, New South Wales in 1924, the son of an accountancy clerk. Chatto was educated at Kogarah Primary School, Canterbury High School and Sydney Grammar School. His father, an accountant for Smith's Weekly, showed his son's sketches to the art staff at the magazine, where he was invited by Jim Russell to attend weekly art classes. On leaving school Chatto found work with the art department of Greater Union Theatres then drawing aircraft recognition charts for the Australian Air Training Corps before enlisting with the RAAF.
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 on 26 June 1946. Also, in 1947, Chatto two comic strips for a nudist magazine, The Australian Sunbather, which was published by Ashworth Publications. When Destiny Scott ended he contributed to the All-Australian Comics group on Bunny Allen,The Glamour Girl and The Buccaneer.
He had an eye for a good line and a very good talent at drawing women. Some of his strips, like Glamour Girl and Wanda Dare, were good examples of his art. I don't mean to say he was a 'perv', or anything like that, but he captured women well.
In 1949 Chatto created The Lone Wolf for Atlas Publications, which was later drawn by Yaroslav Horak, and in 1954 created Steven Carlisle for Larry Cleland Publishing Company. 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. He also worked on The Twilight Ranger and El Lobo at Cleveland Press.
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