Kari Leppänen

Kari Tapio Leppänen (born September 1, 1945) is a Finnish comic strip artist who has worked on the Phantom 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 publisher Semic became aware of his work and offered him a job as an artist on the Phantom series. Provided by Wikipedia