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26-608: 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. His first job as an artist was working on the comic book Famous Funnies . Barry began his professional career as his brother's art assistant, and by

52-492: A famously uneasy and brief partnership, but their version of Flash Gordon remains outstanding". Later, other writers including Harry Harrison , Bob Kanigher, Sid Jacobson, Larry Shaw and Bill Finger contributed scripts to Barry's Flash Gordon series. In addition, at various times during his tenure, he was assisted in his artwork by a number of artists including Bob Fujitani , Fred Kida , and Frank Frazetta . When artist Mac Raboy died in 1967, Barry assumed responsibility of

78-424: A sports strip on the sports page. Initially, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the 1920s, many newspapers gathered the strips together on a single page, along with news articles, columns, puzzles and/or other illustrated features. In many newspapers, the width of the strips made possible an arrangement of the strips into two stacks displayed from

104-468: Is made between continuity strips which have continuous storylines and gag-a-days in which the same characters appear in different humorous situations with no ongoing plot. In some cases, a gag-a-day strip might depict different characters each day. Writer-artist Jim Scancarelli attempts an overlap by inserting daily gags into his Gasoline Alley continuity storylines. Newspapers can display strips on separate pages randomly or thematically, such as placing

130-679: The Captain Midnight comic book. After a period serving in the Air Force, Barry returned to comics. Barry assisted Burne Hogarth with the Tarzan daily strip ; from 1947 to 1948 Barry took over the Tarzan strip. In 1951 Barry revived the Flash Gordon daily strip . Barry was initially assisted with the strip by Harvey Kurtzman , who wrote the scripts while Barry provided the illustrations. Comics historian Drew Friedman noted "Barry and Kurtzman had

156-460: The Flash Gordon Sunday strip also. He also drew The Amazing Spider-Man from July 1986 to January 1987. He created the official poster for the 1980 movie version of Flash Gordon . After moving to Cleveland, Georgia, he was assisted in his work by artist Gail Beckett. In 1990, he left Flash Gordon altogether when the syndicate, King Features , asked him to take a cut in pay. He drew

182-543: The 1930s, the original art for a daily strip could be drawn as large as 25 inches wide by six inches high. As strips have become smaller, the number of panels has been reduced. In some cases today, the daily strip and Sunday strip dimensions are almost the same. For instance, a daily strip in The Arizona Republic measures 4 3/4" wide by 1 1/2" deep, while the three-tiered Hägar the Horrible Sunday strip in

208-407: The advantage of making space for additional strips but often resulted in a crowded, unattractive page design. More often during the 1930s and 1940s, the title was typeset (in all upper case letters) and positioned to the right in the white space area above that strip, with the byline on the right. An episode subtitle (in upper and lower case) was centred between the title and the byline. In later years,

234-691: The adventures of Winnie Winkle , Moon Mullins and Dondi , and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football. (After I left for college, my father would clip out that strip each year and send it to me just to make sure I didn't miss it.)" Collections of such clipped daily strips can now be found in various archives, including Steve Cottle's online I Love Comix Archive. Comics historian Bill Blackbeard had tens of thousands of daily strips clipped and organized chronologically. Blackbeard's San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, spanning

260-537: The cover of the pamphlet's first edition, but a text box covered it in later printings. The Montgomery Story , written by Alfred Hassler and Benton Resnik and distributed by the Fellowship of Reconciliation , "taught young people not just about the event itself but also about nonviolence as a tool for social change." Many decades later, the comic inspired the March trilogy by Georgia Congressman John Lewis . In 1961, upon

286-548: The daily Spider-Man comic strip for two weeks in 1986. His last work was for Dark Horse Comics , where he wrote and drew many Indiana Jones and Predator comic books. In recognition for his work, he was awarded the Inkpot Award in 1991. Between 1954 and 1957, Leopoldo Ortiz and José Ortiz published a Western adventure comic strip Dan Barry el Terremoto ( es ) at the Spanish publisher Editorial Maga . They named

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312-528: The death of The Phantom artist Wilson McCoy , who had succeeded artist Ray Moore , King Features hired Barry to take over that strip. Within three years the Phantom’s readership increased to over 900 newspapers becoming the most popular Phantom artist ever, His Phantom added a sense of realism and style to the character that has never been seen before. Barry remained on it for more than 30 years until his retirement in 1994. Barry frequently used pencil artists on

338-575: The early 1950s Sy Barry was very much in demand as an inker, and he was one of the best. He also assisted his brother Dan on the Tarzan comic strip for United Feature Syndicate and the Flash Gordon comic strip from King Features Syndicate . He was hired by Capp Studio to draw Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story , a comics pamphlet published in 1957. Barry's signature was visible on

364-452: The entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches in height. In the 1920s, an eight-column newspaper usually ran a daily strip over six columns. Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip. Larger sizes have returned with today's digital distribution by DailyINK and other services. During

390-529: The first daily comic strip, launched November 15, 1907 (under its initial title, A. Mutt ) on the sports pages of the San Francisco Chronicle . The featured character had previously appeared in sports cartoons by Fisher but was unnamed. Fisher had approached his editor, John P. Young , about doing a regular strip as early as 1905 but was turned down. According to Fisher, Young told him, "It would take up too much room, and readers are used to reading down

416-651: 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 precursor Timely Comics , and the DC Comics precursor National Comics. At National, he worked on features including Romance Comics, Mystery in Space , Detective Comics, Superboy , Johnny Peril, World's Finest Adventure Comics , Rex the Wonder Dog, and The Phantom Stranger . By

442-435: The leading single gag panels for decades, Grin and Bear It , was created in 1932 by George Lichty and initially syndicated by United Feature Syndicate . Throughout the 20th century, daily newspaper strips were usually presented in black and white and Sunday strips in colour, but a few newspapers have published daily strips in colour, and some newspapers, such as Grit , have published Sunday strips in black and white. On

468-461: The main character after the American artist. Daily strip A daily strip is a newspaper comic strip format, appearing on weekdays, Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip , which typically only appears on Sundays. They typically are smaller, 3–4 grids compared to the full page Sunday strip and are black and white. Bud Fisher 's Mutt and Jeff is commonly regarded as

494-758: The page, and not horizontally." Other cartoonists followed the trend set by Fisher, as noted by comic strip historian R. C. Harvey : In the early 1900s, William Randolph Hearst 's weekday morning and afternoon papers around the country featured scattered black-and-white comic strips, and on January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comics page in his Evening Journal . The two conventional formats for daily newspaper comics are strips and single gag panels . The strips are usually displayed horizontally, wider than they are tall. Strips are usually, but not always, broken up into several smaller panels with continuity from panel to panel. Single panels are square, circular or taller than they are wide. One of

520-725: The same paper is 5" wide by 3 3/8" deep. The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved or posted on bulletin boards or refrigerators. Authors John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips. Many readers related to J. R. Williams ' homespun humour and clipped his long-run daily panel, Out Our Way . As noted by Coulton Waugh in his 1947 book, The Comics , anecdotal evidence indicated that more of Williams' daily cartoons were clipped and saved than any other newspaper comic strip. Strips had an ancillary form of distribution when they were clipped and mailed, as noted by The Baltimore Sun ' s Linda White: "I followed

546-480: The strip, working primarily as an inker , though he often drew entire stories when time permitted. Barry's first Phantom daily strip was published on August 21, 1961 and his last on September 3, 1994. He replaced Bill Lignante on the Sundays. His first Phantom Sunday page was published on May 20, 1962 and his last on September 18, 1994. Dan Barry (cartoonist) Daniel Barry (July 11, 1923 – January 25, 1997)

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572-437: The subtitles vanished as continuity strips gave way to humour strips. In a nod toward the classic daily strips of yesteryear, the cartoonist Bill Griffith continues the tradition by always centring a hand-lettered episode subtitle above each of his Zippy strips. In rare cases, some newspapers assembled pages of stacked strips minus titles, leaving more than a few confused readers. Early daily strips were large, often running

598-404: The top to the bottom of the page. Some newspapers would alter a horizontal strip to fit their page layout by placing the first two panels of a strip atop panels three and four. This then had a shape roughly similar to a gag panel and could be grouped with the gag panels. The title of a strip was sometimes typeset and pasted into the first panel, enabling the strips to be closely stacked. This had

624-474: The web, daily newspaper strips are usually in colour, and conversely, some Webcomics , such as Joyce and Walky , has been created in black and white. Traditionally, balloons and captions were hand-lettered with all upper case letters. However, there are exceptions such as a few strips which have typeset dialogue such as Barnaby . Upper and lower case lettering are used in Gasoline Alley . A distinction

650-647: The years 1894 to 1996, has provided source material for books and articles by Blackbeard and other researchers. During the 1990s, this collection was acquired by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum , providing the Ohio State museum with the world's most extensive collection of daily newspaper comic strip tear sheets and clippings. In 1998, six 18-wheelers transported the Blackbeard collection from California to Ohio. A Fortune poll in 1937 ranked

676-620: Was an American cartoonist . Beginning in comic books during the 1940s with Leonard Starr , Stan Drake and his brother Sy Barry , he helped define and exemplify a particular kind of "New York Slick" style which dominated comics until the Marvel Revolution brought attention to the Jack Kirby style. This style was characterized by careful attention to lines and the clear delineation of textures. Barry's early comics work included Airboy , Doc Savage , Blue Bolt , as well as covers for

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