Celebrating Sy
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Last Friday the National Cartoonists Society and King Features Syndicate honored Sy Barry with the Elzie Segar Award during this year’s Reuben Awards ceremony and 97 year old Sy made the 20 mile trip to Boston to accept the trophy in person.
Today Ryan Yau at The Boston Globe covered the local celebrity (or here):
The National Cartoonists Society celebrated 97-year-old Andover resident Seymour “Sy” Barry on Friday during the 79th annual Reuben Awards.
[T]he NCS honored Barry with the Elzie Segar Award, which recognizes artists for their contributions to the “profession of cartooning.”
Barry earned acclaim during his career for illustrating the popular adventure comic strip “The Phantom” for more than three decades, and was a prolific penciler and inker for DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
“That’s a beautiful finale of my life, really,” Barry said of receiving the award during an interview with the Globe at his assisted-living residence in Andover prior to the event. “It’s wonderful now that I’m being recognized. It took 30 years for them to come up with the award, but I’m very grateful.”
Sy also had a hand in the creation of a recent Hollywood superstar.
He’s also credited with co-creating Superman’s famous flying dog, Krypto, who recently made his live-action, big-screen debut in the new “Superman” film.
In 1955, while working at DC Comics, Barry said he was tasked by his editor, Julius Schwartz, to “design a dog for Superman” in a story written by Otto Binder and penciled by Curt Swan. Barry, who previously drew Rex the Wonder Dog, designed Krypto as a white great dane with a red cape. Krypto made his first appearance in “Adventure Comics” issue #210 as the companion of Superboy, a younger version of Superman…
Of course it was 33 years of drawing The Phantom every day that is his magnum opus.
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