Sururi Gümen was a Turkish American

Turkish American

Turkish Americans are people who have Turkish ancestry and are citizens of the United States.-History:Early Turkish immigrants to the United States were predominantly from Turkey's rural community. They settled in large, industrial cities and found employment as unskilled laborers...

 illustrator. For many years he was an uncredited ghost artist behind Alfred Andriola

Alfred Andriola

Alfred James Andriola was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Kerry Drake, for which he won a Reuben Award in 1970. His work sometimes appeared under the pseudonym Alfred James....

's comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 Kerry Drake

Kerry Drake

Kerry Drake is the title of a comic strip created for Publishers Syndicate by Alfred Andriola as artist and Allen Saunders as uncredited writer...

, finally receiving co-credit in 1976.

He emigrated to the United States in 1955. His son, graphic artist Murad Gümen, said that Gümen's concerns for his family's welfare dictated that he let other artists take the credit for his work.