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- 1900: birth of
Ham Fisher, American comic strip creator best known for
Joe Palooka
- 1946: birth of
Carson Van Osten, American comics creator working on
Disney comics
- 1952: birth of
Bill Vallely, American freelance illustrator and writer, known for his work at various comic publishers
- 1957: death of
Harry Paschall, American weightlifter, magazine editor, cartoonist, and writer, creator of the Bosco comic strip
- 1962: birth of
Mark Mazz, American comic book art director, editor, and writer, founder of publishing company Atlas Unleashed
- 1971: first appearance of
Yoko Tsuno by
Roger Leloup, in
Spirou
- 1972: birth of
Jock (cartoonist), Scottish cartoonist and comic book artist
- 1977: first publication of
Plug, a
British comic which ran for 76 issues
- 1982: birth of Matthew Inman, American cartoonist, creator of web comic
The Oatmeal
- 1993: launch of
Doctor Fun by David Farley, presumably the first comic on the
World Wide Web