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Aquarian New Age drawings from Australia

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 Helen Horvath, 'A poster drawn for us by Helen Horvath of Nimbin', The Living Daylights , 2(12), March-April 1974. A mystery September 2014: Whilst browsing the pages of an obscure Melbourne-based magazine from 1973-4 called The Living Daylights , edited by Richard Neville of OZ fame, I found therein a collection of artworks and posters by some of Australia's best known alternate and comic artists of the period. These included Martin Sharp, Michael Leunig, Neil McLean, Garry Patterson, Dickie, Michael Fitzjames and Ian McClausland. The Living Daylights was one amongst a number of magazines from that era which arose out of the burgeoning counterculture movement. It ran for only 15 issues, during a period of much change in Australia, especially in regards to the cultural revolution which had taken place in the United Kingdom and America during the latter half of the 1960s, but which arrived in Australia shortly thereafter and ran through to the mid' 1