Dan Barry (comic artist)

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Daniel Barry (born July 11, 1923 in Long Branch , New Jersey , † January 25, 1997 ) was an American comic artist .

life and work

Barry, the older brother of comic artist Sy Barry , began his comic book career in 1940 after graduating from Textile High School and American Artists School. He then worked, among other things, as an employed draftsman at Otto Binder . After he was drafted into the Air Force in 1943 , Barry created the comic strip Bombrack for a military magazine . After completing his military service, he drew the daily strip Tarzan in 1947 and 1948 . In 1951, the King Features Syndicate hired him to revive the daily strip Flash Gordon . Barry, who was supported in his work on Flash Gordon by Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson , among others , held this strip until the 1990s.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dan Barry on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on September 28, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Daniel Barry on lambiek.net (English), accessed on September 28, 2012
  3. ↑ Sy Barry on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on September 28, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c d e Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 81.
personal data
SURNAME Barry, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barry, Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Branch , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1997