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- 1883: death of
Gustave Doré, French artist, as a
printmaker,
illustrator, painter,
comics artist,
caricaturist, and
sculptor
- 1884: birth of
George McManus, American comic strip creator best known for
Bringing up Father
- 1905: death of
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro,
Portuguese comics pioneer best known for
Zé Povinho
- 1910: death of
Angelo Agostini, considered the first
Brazilian cartoonist and a pioneer of sequential art
- 1930: debut of
Quick & Flupke,
Belgian comic series by
Hergé, in
Le Petit Vingtième
- 1934: birth of
Don Wright,
American
editorial cartoonist
- 1949: birth of
Tom Condon, DC Comics managing editor from 1984-1986.
- 1952: birth of
Klaus Janson,
German-born
American
comics artist, best known as an
inker
- 1953: death of
Raymond De La Nezière, French comic artist mainly known for his drawings of horses and his
anthropomorphic animals
- 1958: death of
Ilia Beshkov,
Bulgarian painter, graphic artist, comics artist, caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator, writer and pedagogue.
- 1965: first publication of
Sparky,
British comic which ran for 652 issues
- 1988: last issue of
Battle Picture Weekly, British comic which ran since 1975
- 2001: first issue of
Planetes,
Japanese
manga created by
Makoto Yukimura
- 2001: debut of
Zipang, ongoing Japanese manga by Kaiji Kawaguchi