Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Infobox comics creator James Osmyn Berry (January 16, 1932 – March 20, 2015)[1] was an American comic strip artist.
Berry was born in Chicago in 1932[2] and attended Dartmouth College and Ohio Wesleyan University.[3]
In 1961, Berry began working for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
His most notable work may well be the syndicated editorial cartoon Berry's World, distributed six days a week for more than 40 years beginning in 1963. There was also a Sunday comic strip version of the strip, about which he stated "I enjoy working in color on the Sunday pages and having all that space in which to draw".[4]
The National Headliner Award was presented to Berry in 1967.[3] Berry won the National Cartoonists Society award for Best Special Feature in 1970 and 1972.[5][6] He also produced the comic strip Benjy in 1974 and 1975.
He wrote with Denny O'Neil the novel Dragon's Fist. O'Neil adapt later this story in Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter[7]
He retired on January 1, 2003[4] and died on March 20, 2015.[8]
References
Further reading
- Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. .
External links
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- Michigan State University Libraries: Index to Comic Art Collection
- Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center: An inventory of his cartoons
- Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database
- ↑ "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSH-PZL3 : accessed 9 June 2016), James Osmyn Berry, 16 Jan 1932; citing Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 84, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide #1650; February 2009; Page 107
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jim Berry
- ↑ NCS Awards http://www.reuben.org/ncs/archive/divisions/others2.asp
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- ↑ Template:Google books, Back Issue 105, page 57
- ↑ James O. Berry, 1932-2015