Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/March/March 17

1950: birth of Rötger Feldmann, German comics author best known for Werner
1951: first appearance of Dennis the Menace, ongoing British comic strip created by David Law in The Beano (this comic is unrelated to the American comic strip Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham which debuted 5 days earlier)
1956: birth of Patrick McDonnell, American creator of the popular comic strip Mutts
1959: first issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine, a Japanese shōnen manga magazine
1985: debut of Luann, an American comic strip by Greg Evans