painter, illustrator and comic strip artist, was born and works in Adelaide, son of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz , an abstract painter who gave him art lessons as a child. Much later he decided to draw comics. In 1974 he withdrew from tertiary studies and spent a year with the SA Theatre youth workshops before becoming involved with the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, with which he regularly exhibited 1976-90. At the same time he was working as a freelance illustrator and designer. His involvement in Australian comics is both as a maker and collector. He has also worked on US comics including Superman – Man of Steel (DC Comics #42) and Batman Forever . He won the 1991 Stanley for 'Best Adventure Strip Artist’. SLNSW ML has his 1984 original title page for The Dragon’s Lair.
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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
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