Layne Dhu-Dickie

‘I’ve always loved drawing and also it’s fun trying to make a story.’

‘My name is Layne Dhu-Dickie, I’m a comic book artist from South Hedland, Western Australia.

I became interested in comic books from my dad. I used to read his Phantom comic books a lot as a kid and his Spiderman comics. I started when I was 12 years old and now I’m 15. I’ve always loved drawing and also it’s fun trying to make a story. I’ve just always been drawing since I was a kid and I’ve watched these TV shows such as Marvel TV shows and DC TV shows, so I’ve just tried to mimic their style.

I think every comic book artist eventually develops their own style. I suppose there are a lot of problems [here in Port Hedland] so I thought it would be cool if I could create a superhero that could stop them. So I based it off Captain America. In the first Captain Hedland, the villain was Crave. He touched people and made them crave drugs and alcohol. I was hoping that would get a message across for all these people doing these things for them to stop.’