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January 1

• 1912: birth of Tony Weare, British comic strip artist best known for Matt Marriott
• 1922: birth of Jerry Robinson, American comics book artist best known for his work on early Batman comics
• 1944: birth of Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira, better known as Léo, Brazilian comics author and artist best known for Les Mondes d'Aldébaran
• 1980: debut of The Far Side, popular American one-panel comic strip by Gary Larson
• 1991: last issue of Starblazer, British anthology comic magazine which ran for 281 issues
• 1995: final new strip of The Far Side, 15 years after its debut
• 1996: launch of Bruno, American webcomic by Christopher Baldwin
• 1999: start of College Roomies from Hell!!!, Mexican-American webcomic by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo
• 2000: last appearance of Motley's Crew, American comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman
• 2002: first volume of Claymore, Japanese manga created by Norihiro Yagi
• 2005: debut of Le blog de Frantico, French webcomic by an unknown author rumoured to be Lewis Trondheim or one of his friends-collaborators
• 2007: syndication starts for Diesel Sweeties, previously a webcomic by Richard Stevens III

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January 2

• 1857: birth of Frederick Burr Opper, American comic strip author best known for Happy Hooligan, And Her Name Was Maud and Alphonse and Gaston
• 1929: birth of Don Heck, American comic book artist best known for cocreating Iron Man and for his work on The Avengers
• 1956: birth of Lynda Barry, American comic book writer and artist
• 1960: birth of Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga artist known for Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl and Master Keaton
• 1972: birth of Dennis Calero, American comic book artist best known for X-Factor
• 1982: death of Fred Harman, American comic strip artist best known for Red Ryder
• 2003: death of Jack Keller, American comic book artist best known for his work on Kid Colt

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January 3

• 1924: birth of André Franquin, influential Belgian comics artist and author, best known for Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe, and the Marsupilami
• 1930: death of Clare Briggs, early American comic strip author best known for A. Piker Clerk
• 1977: debut of the comic strip version of The Amazing Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr.
• 1979: birth of Shawn Handyside, American webcomic author known for [Staccato (comic)|Staccato]]
• 1979: birth of Francesco Bellissimo, Italian manga author known for Roma-kun
• 1983: first appearance of Arnold, a comic strip by Kevin McCormick which ran until 1988
• 2005: death of Will Eisner, major American comics author and artist, creator of The Spirit and the early graphic novel A Contract with God
• 2005: start of Brevity, American comic strip by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry

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January 4

• 1919: birth of Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, Portuguese comic book artist best known for Ragnar
• 1923: birth of Chic Stone, American comic book artist best known as an inker on Fantastic Four
• 1975: last publication of Buzz, a British broadsheet comic which appeared for almost two years
• 1975: death of Bob Montana, American comic strip creator best known for Archie
• 2000: last appearance of Buster, a British comic which started in 1960
• 2007: death of Gren, Welsh comics artist best known for Ponty an' Pop and Big Deal

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January 5

• 1905: birth of Foxo Reardon, American comic strip creator known for Bozo
• 1941: birth of Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese mangaka known for Nausicaä but better known as animated movie director
• 1957: death of Clarence Gray, American comic strip artist best known for Brick Bradford
• 1997: death of André Franquin, influential Belgian comics artist and author, best known for Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe, and the Marsupilami
• 2000: death of Goseki Kojima, Japanese mangaka best known for Lone Wolf and Cub
• 2002: debut of Freddie Fear, British comic strip by Dave Eastbury in The Beano
• 2006: end of Dragon Drive, Japanese manga created by Ken-ichi Sakura

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January 6

• 1939: first appearance of Superman, an American comic strip by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, which ran until 1966
• 1953: birth of Angelo Stano, Italian comics artist best known for cocreating Dylan Dog
• 1983: start of Adolf, award winning Japanese manga by Osamu Tezuka
• 2000: death of Don Martin, American comic book artist and author best known for his work on MAD magazine
• 2003: debut of Beauty is the Beast, Japanese manga by Tomo Matsumoto

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January 7

• 1881: birth of Gene Carr, American pioneering comics creator
• 1912: birth of Charles Addams, American cartoonist best known for The Addams Family
• 1929: first appearance of Buck Rogers, American comic strip by Dick Calkins
• 1934: debut of Jungle Jim, American comic strip by Alex Raymond and Don Moore
• 1935: first appearance of Flash Gordon, American comic strip by Alex Raymond
• 1945: birth of Jay Lynch, American underground comix artist best known for Nard N' Pat and his work in Mad magazine
• 1947: start of Steve Canyon, American comic strip by Milton Caniff which ran until 1988
• 1965: birth of Fabrice Giger, Swiss comics publisher best known for Les Humanoïdes Associés
• 1967: first appearance of Luc Orient by Greg and Eddy Paape in Tintin
• 1971: birth of Tina Anderson, American yaoi comics author
• 1990: debut of Baby Blues, American comic strip by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

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January 8

• 1938: death of Johnny Gruelle, American comics creator known for Mr. Twee Deedle
• 1979: death of Victor Hubinon, Belgian comics artist best known for Redbeard and Buck Danny
• 1993: first volume of Wangan Midnight, Japanese racing manga created by Michiharu Kusunoki

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January 9

• 1886: birth of Arthur "Bugs" Baer, American cartoonist known as ghostwriter of Mutt and Jeff
• 1901: birth of Chic Young, American comic strip creator best known for Blondie
• 1908: death of Wilhelm Busch, German artist and pioneer of picture stories, creator of Max and Moritz

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January 10

• 1897: birth of J.P. McEvoy, American comics writer best known for Dixie Dugan
• 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
• 2002: death of John Buscema, American comic book artist
• 2004: end of Boy Meets Boy, American slash webcomic by K. Sandra Fuhr

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January 11

• 1877: birth of O. A., early Swedish comics creator best known for Urhunden
• 1926: birth of Guglielmo Letteri, Italian comics artist best known for his work on Tex Willer
• 1957: birth of Bernard Hislaire, Belgian comics artist also known as Yslaire, most famous for Sambre
• 1973: first appearance of Le Génie des alpages by F'Murr in Pilote
• 1998: death of Win Mortimer, Canadian comics artist best known for his work on Superman
• 2005: debut of Peach Fuzz, original English-language manga by Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges

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January 12

• 1891: birth of Raeburn van Buren, American comic strip artist best known for Abbie an' Slats
• 1913: first appearance of Bringing up Father, American comic strip by George McManus which ran until 2000
• 1967: birth of Takehiko Inoue, Japanese mangaka best known for Vagabond
• 1973: birth of Hans Rickheit, American comics creator known for the graphic novel Chloe
• 2000: birth of Pontus Madsen, Swedish webcomic artist best known for Little Gamers
• 2001: death of Gian Luigi Bonelli, Italian comics writer best known for Tex Willer

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January 13

• 1914: birth of Jijé, influential Belgian comics artist and author, known for Spirou et Fantasio and Jerry Spring
• 1930: first publication of the Mickey Mouse daily strip by Walt Disney
• 1933: birth of Ron Goulart, American comic strip writer known for Star Hawks
• 1938: birth of Cabu, French comics artist best known for Le grand Duduche
• 1956: death of Lyonel Feininger, early American comic strip creator best known for The Kin-der-Kids
• 1968: last publication of Wham!, a British comic
• 1968: last issue of Giggle, British comic book which only lasted for 8 months

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January 14

• 1863: birth of Richard F. Outcault, American comic strip pioneer best known for The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown
• 1914: birth of Vince Alascia, American comics artist best known for working on Captain America
• 1950: first publication of Comet, British comic magazine
• 1967: birth of Leonardo Ortolani, Italian comics author best known for Rat-Man
• 1976: birth of Tommi Liimatta, Finnish comics author

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January 15

• 1962: first appearance of Iznogoud, French caliphate comics series by René Goscinny and Jean Tabary
• 1986: death of Alfred Bestall, British comic strip author best known for continuing Rupert the Bear

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January 16

• 1939: birth of Jean Van Hamme, Belgian comics author best known for Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch
• 1960: birth of Frédéric Boilet, French mangaka known for Yukiko's Spinach
• 1968: birth of Stephan Pastis, American comic strip author best known for Pearls Before Swine
• 1970: birth of Garth Ennis, Northern Irish comics writer best known for Preacher
• 1970: death of David Breger, American comic strip creator known for G. I. Joe
• 1988: first appearance of The Germs, a comic strip by David Sutherland, in the British comic The Beano

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January 17

• 1851: birth of A. B. Frost, early American comics artist and writer
• 1877: birth of May Gibbs, Australian comic strip artist knonw for Bib and Bub and Tiggy Touchwood
• 1920: first issue of Film Fun, British comic book which lasted for 2225 issues
• 1920: birth of Georges Pichard, French comics artist known for Blanche Épiphanie and other erotic cartoons
• 1921: birth of Antonio Prohias, Cuban comics artist best known for the creation of Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine
• 1926: birth of Oscar González Guerrero, Mexican comics artist known for Zor y Los Invencibles
• 1929: first appearance of Popeye by Elzie Crisler Segar in the comic strip Thimble Theater

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January 18

• 1934: birth of Raymond Briggs, British comics author best known for his graphic novel When the Wind Blows
• 1968: birth of Frank Quitely, American comics artist known for All Star Superman
• 1974: death of Bill Finger, American comic book writer best known for co-creating Batman and many of its prominent characters
• 1975: first issue of Cracker, British comic which appeared until September 1976
• 2003: first issue of Manga Time Kirara Carat, Japanese seinen manga magazine
• 2003: debut of Midori Days, Japanese manga created by Kazurou Inoue

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January 19

• 1921: birth of John Tartaglione, American comic book artist best known for inking Nick Fury
• 1936: first appearance of Jo, Zette and Jocko, comic series by Hergé
• 1948: birth of Joe Staton, American comic book artist and author
• 2004: death of George Woodbridge, American comics artist best known for his work with Mad Magazine, e.g. 43-Man Squamish

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January 20

• 1894: birth of Harold Gray, American comic strip author best known for Little Orphan Annie
• 1950: birth of Keith Pollard, American comic book artist best known for his work on Fantastic Four
• 1965: birth of Jim Keefe, American comics artist best known for Flash Gordon
• 1968: birth of Gerry Alanguilan, Filipino comic book artist known for Wasted
• 1973: first publication of Buzz, a British broadsheet comic which appeared for almost two years

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January 21

• 1937: birth of Jim Unger, British-Canadian comic strip creator best known for Herman
• 1956: first issue of Beezer, British comic which ran until 1993
• 1997: debut of Nukees, American webcomic by Darren Bleuel
• 2002: start of El Goonish Shive, American webcomic by Dan Shive

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January 22

• 1934: first appearance of Secret Agent X-9, American comic strip by Alex Raymond and Dashiell Hammett which ran until 1996
• 1939: birth of Nonoy Marcelo, Filipino comics artist best known for Ikabod
• 1958: birth of Joe Chiodo, American comics colorist
• 1958: birth of Howard Mackie, American comic book editor and writer with Marvel Comics
• 1966: first issue of Lady Penelope, British comic for girls which ran for 204 issues
• 1969: birth of John Linton Roberson, American comics creator known for Vitriol
• 1970: birth of Alex Ross, American comics artist, best known as an artist for DC Comics
• 1983: first issue of Spike, British comic
• 2003: death of Bill Mauldin, American comic strip creator known for Willie and Joe

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January 23

• 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
• 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

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January 24

• 1910: birth of Noel Sickles, American comic strip creator best known for Scorchy Smith
• 1930: birth of John Romita, Sr., American comics artist best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man
• 1943: debut of Male Call, American comic strip by Milton Caniff
• 1954: birth of Lorenzo Mattotti, Italian comics artist and author with a very distinct graphical style, e.g. in Fires
• 2002: death of Kurt Schaffenberger, American comic book artist best known for his work on Captain Marvel
• 2005: launch of Aoi House, American shōnen harem manga by Adam Arnold and Shiei

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January 25

• 1941: last publication of The Magic Comic, British comic which lasted for 80 issues only
• 1953: birth of John Lustig, American comic book writer known for Donald Duck
• 1961: first issue of The Victor, British comic which ran until 1992
• 1972: publication of the first part of Ayako, Japanese manga trilogy by Osamu Tezuka
• 1973: birth of Geoff Johns, American comic book writer best known for his work with DC Comics

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January 26

• 1929: birth of Jules Feiffer, American comic strip artist and author, best known for his work in The Village Voice
• 1936: birth of Sal Buscema, American comic book artist known for his work on The Spectacular Spider-Man
• 1948: first appearance of Rusty Riley, American comic strip by Frank Godwin
• 1999: the webcomic Funny Farm by Ryan Smith debutes on Keenspot

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January 27

• 1952: birth of Steve Leialoha, American comic book artist
• 1954: birth of Peter Laird, American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 1957: birth of Frank Miller, influential American comic book artist and writer, best known for his work on Batman and Sin City
• 1968: birth of Eric Burns, American webcomic author and creator of Websnark

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January 28

• 1878: birth of Mary Tourtel, British comics author best known for Rupert Bear
• 1943: birth of Dany, Belgian comics artist best known for Olivier Rameau
• 1960: birth of Mike Luckovich, American cartoonist known for SuperZeros
• 1996: death of Jerry Siegel, American comics author, co-creator of Superman
• 1996: death of Burne Hogarth, influential American comic book artist best known for his Tarzan comic strip in newspapers and for co-founding the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York City
• 2005: death of Daniel Branca, Argentine comics artist best known for his work on Disney comics

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January 29

• 1874: birth of Raoul Barré, Canadian pioneering comics artist
• 1972: birth of Brian Wood, American comic book writer known for DMZ
• 1976: birth of Ryan Kelly, American comics artist best known for Local

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January 30

• 1920: birth of Machiko Hasegawa, Japanese mangaka best known for Sazae-san
• 1927: birth of Jef Nys, popular Belgian comics creator best known for Jommeke
• 1957: birth of Guy Gilchrist, American comic strip artist known for continuing Nancy
• 1968: birth of Rhoda Shipman, American comic book writer known for Pakkins' Land
• 1971: final appearance of Abbie an' Slats, American comic strip written by Al Capp and drawn by Raeburn van Buren
• 1982: last issue of Jackpot, a British comic which ran from 1979

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January 31

• 1799: birth of Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher and artist widely considered to be the first modern comic creator
• 1917: birth of José Guadalupe Cruz, Mexican comics writer known for Santo, el enmascarado de plata
• 1952: first appearance of Marsupilami, Franco-Belgian comics character by André Franquin, in Spirou magazine
• 1960: birth of Grant Morrison, Scottish comic book writer and artist
• 1987: first publication of Nipper, British comic
• 2000: death of Gil Kane, Latvian-American comic book artist working mainly for Marvel Comics

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