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- 1887: birth of
Bud Counihan, American cartoonist, best remembered as the originator of the
Betty Boop comic strip
- 1894: birth of
J. P. McEvoy,
American writer, best known as the creator and writer of the comic strip
Dixie Dugan
- 1909: birth of
Jack Miller, American comic book writer and creator of
Rip Hunter
- 1927: debut of
Little Annie Rooney,
comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero
- 1929: debut of
The Adventures of Tintin, the influential comic book series by
Belgian author and artist
Hergé, in the newspaper supplement
Le Petit Vingtième, with the story
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
- 1932: debut of
Mickey Mouse for the first time in color comics with his first Sunday comics page
- 1932: debut of
Pete the Tramp
comic strip, distributed by
King Features Syndicate
- 1970: first issue of
Scorcher
- 2002: death of
John Buscema, American comic book artist