Dale Berry

Dale W. Berry (born April 20, 1960) is an American comic book artist, author, and radio personality. Beginning in the 1980s, Berry produced comics. He created the comic Ninja Funnies and the series Tales of the Moonlight Cutter, which features a hero who battles deadly ghosts in 12th-century China. Berry later founded the press Myriad Publications. With Gary Phillips, he co-authored The Be-Bop Barbarians: Comic Book Bohemians to a 1950s Jazz Beat, a 2019 work set in 1950s Harlem.

Berry worked as a fencing instructor at California State University, Bakersfield. He started his career in radio in 1989 on a jazz and soul station and in the mid-1990s became a personality on the rock station KRZR.

Biography Dale W. Berry was born on April 20, 1960, in Taft, California. Berry graduated from Highland High School. Berry attended Bakersfield College, where he studied scenic design and theater stagecraft. When he worked at California State University, Bakersfield, he taught fencing. The Fox Theater enlisted him to be a stagehand and for marketing duties. According to Berry, at the theater he had the opportunity to collaborate with Aerosmith, Kiss, and Ray Charles. The third novel in the series is Tears of the Dead. In a positive review, Ray Tate of Silver Bullet Comics wrote, "the way in which Mr. Berry dialogues and handles the artistic composure of the characters creates a genuine resonance" and "possession and the exotic backdrop [are used] to good effect". Berry contributed to the 2021 book A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America, discussing how he makes graphic novels.