{"id":1747,"date":"2012-01-23T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:03:09","slug":"local-cartoonist-to-draw-classic-comic-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Local cartoonist to draw classic comic strip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cartoonist Terry Beatty's sample art for The Phantom. " I'm drawing the strip a little 'grittier' than this," the artist says on his blog. (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the jungles of Bengalla, criminals quake in fear of The Ghost Who Walks — the masked crime-fighter known as The Phantom, who has patrolled newspaper comics sections since 1936.<\/p>\n

Terry Beatty<\/a>, a Kansas City area cartoonist, will be the new artist of the Sunday editions of the The Phantom<\/em> comic strip. Beatty\u00e2\u20ac™s first strip will appear January 29th in newspapers around the world.<\/p>\n

Beatty\u00e2\u20ac™s previous work includes comic books featuring Batman, Ms. Tree, Wild Dog, and Mike Danger. Recently he illustrated the graphic novel Return to Perdition<\/em>, a sequel to Road to Perdition<\/em>, which inspired the hit 2002 movie starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman.<\/p>\n

Beatty originally accepted the assignment on a temporary basis due to the ill health of artist Eduardo Barreto. Sadly, Barreto died in December at age 57, making it necessary for King Features Syndicate to find a replacement artist on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eduardo was a terrific guy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Beatty said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was shaken by his death at such an early age. Originally, I was hesitant to go after this assignment because it somehow seemed disrespectful to him. In the end, I decided that someone would need to take the job and that I could do it in a way that respects Eduardo and the other tremendous illustrators who\u00e2\u20ac™ve drawn the strip.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Phantom<\/a><\/em> was created by writer Lee Falk, who continued to work on the strip until his death in 1999. Over the years it has been drawn by a cadre of respected illustrators including Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy, Sy Barry, Fred Fredericks, Graham Nolan, Paul Ryan, and Barreto, among others.<\/p>\n

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Terry Beatty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beatty\u00e2\u20ac™s first strips were needed quickly, so he produced them entirely in digital form. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can work quickly in an all-digital format,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Beatty said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but I prefer a combination of digital and traditional techniques. Now that we\u00e2\u20ac™re in a better shape on deadlines, I\u00e2\u20ac™ve switched to the combination approach.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Beatty begins the strip digitally, adding panel borders, lettering, and basic pre-drawing. He then prints the digital effort on illustration board and finishes the drawings using brushes and black India ink. The strip is then colored by artist Tom Smith.<\/p>\n

Beatty, who moved to the Kansas City area in 2011, will be a guest at Planet Comicon<\/a> on March 24th and 25th in Overland Park. You can\u00c2\u00a0learn more about Terry Beatty on his blog, terrybeatty.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the jungles of Bengalla, criminals quake in fear of The Ghost Who Walks — the masked crime-fighter known as The Phantom, who has patrolled newspaper comics sections since 1936. Terry Beatty, a Kansas City area cartoonist, will be the new artist of the Sunday editions of the The Phantom comic strip. Beatty\u00e2\u20ac™s first strip … Continue reading “Local cartoonist to draw classic comic strip”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,416,17,420,419,26],"tags":[595,594,534,593],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-moves","category-comics-creators","category-conventions-and-events","category-local-creators","category-new-releases","category-news","tag-eduardo-barreto","tag-king-features-syndicate","tag-terry-beatty","tag-the-phantom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}