Seymour "Sy" Barry (born March 12, 1928)[2] is an American comic-book and comic-strip artist, best known for being the artist of the strip The Phantom for more than three decades.
Biography
Sy Barry was born in New York City in 1928, and is the brother of comics artist Dan Barry, who drew the Flash Gordon comic strip. Sy Barry attended high school at the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, New York City beginning in 1943.[3] His first job as an artist was working on the comic book Famous Funnies.[3] Barry began his professional career as his brother's art assistant, and by the late 1940s was working on his own as a freelance comic-book artist, primarily as an inker for publishers including Lev Gleason, the Marvel Comics