Kari Tapio Leppänen (born September 1, 1945) is a Finnish
comic strip
A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Captio ...
artist who has worked on
the Phantom
''The Phantom'' is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The char ...
comic since 1979. Leppänen's career started in the magazine ''
Sarjis''. This was a magazine with only Finnish series. He wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Oskari. The Swedish
comic strip
A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Captio ...
publisher
Semic became aware of his work and offered him a job as an artist on
the Phantom
''The Phantom'' is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The char ...
series.
External links
Kari Leppänen biography Phantomwiki
* Fantomet.org (in Norwegian)
1945 births
Living people
The Phantom
Finnish comics artists
Finnish science fiction writers
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