BLAIR Barry
Elflord, 2-5, Inside front cover. Photographer Sandy MacDonald.
Elflord, 2-8, 32. Photographer Sandy MacDonald.
Born 1 January 1954 in Ottawa.
During his childhood, he moved back and forth between Canada and southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, etc.
In 1978, he founded Night Wyn Enterprises to produce his creation “Elflord”. Night Wynd did a short stint in animation doing the opening animated sequence on You Can’t Do That On Television a television show on Ottawa’s CJOH. In 1982 Nickelodeon joined CJOH to become co-producer of the show. In 1985, Barry retired the Night Wynd imprint and joined with Ken Campbell to found Aircel Publishing Ltd. which used many of the Night Wynd characters. After the sale of Aircel in 1988 to Malibu Graphics, Barry moved his studio to New York to oversee the production of various Aircel titles. However, Malibu cancelled the “Elflord” and “Samurai” and so in June 1991 Barry left and resurrected the Night Wynd imprint with himself as President and Eiwin Mark, longtime associate, as Editor. Through it he revived “Elflord” as Elflord: The Return of the King, and added Blitz, Dragonfire: The Classified Files, Elfheim, Elflore, Foxfire, Samurai and Serpentyne. In 1992, Night Wynd took it upon itself to promote AIDS awareness by carrying a message asking readers to donate their time, supplies and money to local AIDS organizations.
He died 3 January 2010 of an aneurism.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content serial & Cover front:
| Warlock 5,..: “Warlock 5.” Let., Edwin Mark. Aircel Publishing Ltd a division of Malibu Graphics Ltd. Black & white. | ||
| 20, 1989. | 21, 1989. | Bk. II-3. Aug. 1989. |
PENCILLER:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Publisher Renegade Press. Colour cover. Black & white content.
Content story:
Gene Day’s Black Zeppelin, 1-5, Oct. 1986: “Between Two Worlds.” Writ., Gordon Derry. In., David Day: 21-31.
WRITER & PENCILLER:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content serial:
| Warlock 5 …:. In., Jim Somerville. Aircel Publishing Ltd. Black & white | |
| 18, 1988. | 19, 1988. |
CO-WRITER:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content serial:
| Warlock 5 …: “…” …Aircel Publishing Ltd. Black & white |
| 16, 1988: “Warlock 5.” Co-writ., Charles de Lint Pen., Dale Keown. In., Jim Somerville. Let., Mike Charbonneau.
17, 1988: “Warlock 5.”Co-writ., C. de Lint. Pen., D. Keown. In., Jim Somerville. Let., M. Charbonneau. |
CO-LAYOUT & PENCILLER:
Content serial:
| Warlock 5 …: “…” … Aircel Publishing Ltd. Black & white |
| 14, 1988: “Moving Be Like Water.” Writ., Charles de Lint. Co-lay. & Pen., Patrick McEown. In., Jim Somerville. Let., Mike Charbonneau. |
CO-FINISH ARTIST:
Content serial:
| Warlock 5 …: “…” … Aircel Publishing Ltd. Black & white |
| 15, 1988: “Still Be Like A Mirror.” Writ., Charles de Lint. Pen., Patrick McEown. In., Jim Somerville.
Co-fin. Art, Patrick McEown Let., Mike Charbonneau. |
SOURCE:
Article periodical:
Comic Buyer’s Guide, 28 August 1992: “Night Wynd Enterprises”: 44.
Comic Buyer’s Guide, 17 January 1992, “Night Wynd to Promote AIDS awareness”: 76.
Article newspaper:
Toronto Star, 27 Feb.1987: “Here’s your guide to superheroes of Canadian comics.” D6.
Web:
“Aircel Comics.” Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, 23 December 2017. Accessed 4 April 2018.
“Barry Blair.” Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, 11 March 2018. Accessed 4 April 2018.
“Barry Blair.” Comic Vine. Accessed 4 April 2018.
“Malibu Comics.” Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, 28 March 2018. Accessed 4 April 2018.