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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