James L. Barry

James L. Barry is a comics artist known for his work on the Warriors manga through TOKYOPOP. He has also done online comics, such as The Lost Horn, Lost Marbles, The Last Prophet, Punzel, Your Fun-Packed Rapture Guide, and Rabid Rabbit.^[1] He has also exhibited in New York's Museum of Comic and Cartooning Art^[2]

Early life

He earned his MLA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.^[2][3]

Career

Barry's clients include TOKYOPOP and Harper Collins for the Warriors manga series, Young and Rubicam and Real Media Solutions.^[2]

Barry completed work on his ninth manga series illustration, following The Lost Warrior, Warrior's Refuge, Warrior's Return, Shattered Peace, A Clan in Need, The Heart of a Warrior, The Rescue, and Beyond the Code. The new title is called After the Flood. He has not done all of the illustrations, as Don Hudson has done the Tigerstar and Sasha trilogy, and Bettina Kurkoski has done the standalone title The Rise of Scourge. Barry has also done guides on how to draw manga versions of Graystripe, and both sitting and walking cats. Barry has also illustrated short comics at the end of the super editions Bluestar's Prophecy, SkyClan's Destiny, and Crookedstar's Promise and the illustrations for the Warriors Adventure Game in the back of the Omen of the Stars arc.

The Lost Horn is an online comic set in a fantasy world about a unicorn whose horn is taken by an evil king for his daughter to play with. It has yet to be completed.

Lost Marbles is an online comic about a paraplegic who dreams of scaling the heights and jumping throughout the city while the song "Plastic Jesus" plays on the radio.

The Last Prophet is an online comic about a youth who sees the rapture in church after envisioning that a winged squirrel throws a flaming acorn in his eyes. The same winged squirrel comes to him later and tells him that he must accept his fate by proclaiming the will of the New Trinity. The teenager announces his sighting, but nobody believes him until the rapture happens three days later, but the adolescent does not get raptured. Then he sees the sign that the behemoth is coming, and the teenager knows that he has been selected to be the last prophet.

Punzel is an online comic that is also a modern Rapunzel story. As the new prince scales through Punzel's hair, her cruel father cuts off her hair. When the man falls, Punzel follows, and they land happily in her cut-off hair.

Your Fun-Packed Rapture Guide is an online comic that is set newspaper-style soon after the rapture happens. It is also filled with some satire towards the United States, as no souls rise from the Georgia Power Building, the Democratic Party, or the Philadelphia Phillies, and Sonny Perdue is too oversized to rise up.

Rabid Rabbit is a series of comic anthologies that has had three contributions from James L. Barry: "Throwin' Out the Trash" from Rabid Rabbit's Trash, "A New York City Haircut" from Rabid Rabbit's Alphabet City, and "The Theory of Dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden" from Rabid Rabit's Holistic Alternative to the Theory of Evolution.

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