Biography

VLASTISLAV TOMAN (comic book artist and journalist; Czechia)

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Vlastislav Toman is a Czech journalist, adventure writer and comic book writer. From 1959 to 1991 he worked as editor-in-chief of ABC magazine of young technicians and natural scientists.
During the war he was deployed and after the war he graduated from the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Pilsen (1948). After his studies, he joined the Škoda Plzeň. He first published a short story in the magazine Vpřed in 1948. From 1953 to 1956 he was a cultural editor of the magazine Rudá zástava.
He helped found ABC magazine in 1956, and in 1959 he became its editor-in-chief until 1991. ABC was the largest youth magazine in his work. Since 1994, he has directed the magazine for youth Kamarád.
He has published a number of adventure and popular science books and comic book scenarios, usually with a sci-fi theme. These comics were based on continuation in ABC magazine and elsewhere. He devoted himself to the popularization of cosmonautics and the history of firearms. In 1974 he was awarded by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for the best popular scientific work in the press, radio and TV.