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- 1861: death of
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese artist and caricaturist
- 1920: birth of
Sheldon Moldoff, American comic book artist, known as co-creator of
Poison Ivy
- 1922: birth of
Dana Fradon, American cartoonist who drew roughly 1,400 cartoons for
The New Yorker
- 1924: debut of
Wash Tubbs, American comic strip created by
Roy Crane which ran until 1988
- 1927: birth of
Jim Seed, American illustrator and cartoonist, known for the cartoons Dr. Guy Bennett and
Jane Arden
- 1947: launch of
Grandma,
comic strip by
Charles Kuhn
- 1949: birth of
Dave Gibbons,
British comics author and artist, best known for
Watchmen
- 1950: first publication of
Eagle, the most popular
British comic, selling over 2 miilion copies a week, marking the debut of
Dan Dare by
Frank Hampson
- 1954: birth of
Chuck Dixon, American comic book writer, best known for his work on the
Punisher for
Marvel Comics and on the characters
Batman,
Nightwing, and
Robin for
DC Comics
- 1954: birth of
Katsuhiro Otomo,
Japanese
mangaka, best known for
Akira
- 1957: death of
Will Owen, English book illustrator, cartoonist, and caricaturist, producer of cartoons for the
Bystander and
The Sketch
- 1959: birth of
Gerhard,
Canadian artist known for his work on the
comics series
Cerebus the Aardvark.
- 1961: birth of
Daniel Clowes, American comics artist and author best known for
Eightball
- 1974: birth of
Hyung Min-woo,
Korean
manhwa artist best known for
Priest
- 1985: birth of
Jason Fabok, Canadian comic book artist
- 2003: death of
John Kent,
New Zealand comic strip creator best known for Varoomshka