School Days: Rich Chidlaw, Cartoonist

I was an early 1970s fine arts major at Arizona State University and met other students interested in comics. Rich Chidlaw lived on the first floor of Best Hall B dormitory; I was on the second floor. Best Hall consisted of three buildings (A, B and C) on the ASU campus and located across the street from the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gammage Auditorium. Rich contributed cartoons to the student paper, State Press. After ASU, he did comics and animation; he is in a group photo here. Below is his sketch of Barbarella. Chidlaw passed away October 3, 2023. Camelback High School, In Memory

 

Rocket’s Blast Comicollector #74, 1970; advertisement for Ryle Smith and Chidlaw’s Bedlam Magazine

 

(Next post on Monday: Richard Sala, Cartoonist)