Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/January/January 23

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• 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