1910s in comics
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This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1910s.
1910
- June 20: George Herriman's The Dingbat Family makes its debut, syndicated by the precursors of King Features Syndicate, appearing in Hearst newspapers.[1]
- July 26: In the panel edge of The Dingbat Family by George Herriman a cat and a mouse who will later evolve into Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse make their debut.[2][3]
- September: George Frink's Slim Jim and the Force makes its debut. It will run until 1937 by other artists.[4]
- October: The final episode of Walt Kuhn's Whisk is published.[5]
- Grace Dayton's Dolly Dimples makes its debut.[6]
- Tad Dorgan's Judge Rummy makes its debut.[7]
- The first issue of the Belgian satirical cartoons and comics magazine Pourquoi pas? is published.
- Dutch illustrator David Bueno de Mesquita creates the prototypical comic book De Geschiedenis van Gulzigen Tobias.[8]
1911
- January: The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine Kindervriend is published. It will run until 1940.[9]
- April 16: William Steinigans publishes the final episode of The Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy and Pups.[10]
- April 23: The first episode of William Steinigans' Splinters is published. It will run until 1912. [11]
- October 18: The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine Het Mannekensblad is published. It will appear until 1914.[12]
- December 4: The final episode of George Frink's Circus Solly is published.[4]
- Antonio Rubino's Quadratino makes its debut.
- The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine De Geïllustreerde Kinderwereld is published.[9]
- Dutch cartoonist Leendert Jordaan publishes the pantomime comic Het Leven in Karikatuur in the magazine Het Leven. The series will appear until 1936.[13]
- Hungarian cartoonist Bit creates the pantomime comic A Francia Bonne Álma (A French Nanny's Dream), which attracts the interest of psychologists Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud. [14]
1912
- February 5: Sidney Smith's Old Doc Yak makes its debut in the Chicago Tribune. It originated in his earlier strip Buck Nix for the Chicago Evening Journal.
- May 31: John Hager's Doc's Dippy Duck makes its debut in the Seattle Daily Times, appearing on the front page. Not formally named until February 10, 1915.[15][16]
- September 1: The first episode of Mr. Hubby by William Steinigans is published. It will run until 1916. [17]
- October 27: The final episode of William Steinigans' Splinters is published. [18]
- November 7: Ernest Riebe's Mr. Block makes its debut in The Industrial Worker.[19]
- December 4: Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals makes its debut in the New York Journal.[20][21]
- The Journal of Current Pictorial resumed publication after earlier ban by Qing Dynasty.
- The first issue of the Italian comics magazine Lo Scolaro is published. It will run until 1972.
- Dutch illustrator Ko Doncker creates the comics character Piet Pelle for bicycle factory Gazelle.[22]
- Knut Stangenberg creates Fridolf Celinder. [23]
1913
- January 12 - November 9: Raoul Barré's Noahzark Hotel (also known as À l'Hôtel du père Noél) makes its debut.[24]
- January 12: George McManus' Bringing Up Father makes its debut. It will run uninterrupted until 28 May 2000.
- February 23: Gus Mager's Hawkshaw the Detective makes its debut.[25]
- March 16: Rudolph Dirks draws his final The Katzenjammer Kids gag and leaves his newspaper. They instantly hire a replacement artist, Harold Knerr, who continues the series in his place.[26]
- March 31: Arthur R. "Pop" Momand's Keeping Up with the Joneses makes its debut. It will run until 16 April 1938.
- August 10 - December 7: Charles Forbell's Naughty Pete is published.[27]
- October 28: George Herriman's Krazy Kat makes its debut. It will receive a Sunday page from 23 April 1916 on.[3]
- December 29: Walter Hoban's Jerry on the Job makes its debut.
- Journal of Current Pictorial finally ceased publication.[28][29]
1914
- February 2: Harry Hershfield's Abie the Agent makes his debut.[30]
- June: Rudolph Dirks's Hans und Fritz (later renamed The Captain and the Kids) makes its debut after a huge trial between him and his former newspaper boss William Randolph Hearst about the rights to The Katzenjammer Kids. Hearst won the case but Dirks was allowed to use the characters in a different newspaper, The New York World albeit under a different name.[31]
- June 14: William Donahey's The Teenie Weenies makes its debut.[32][33][34]
- July 28: As the First World War leads to Belgium being occupied by German forces the Flemish comics magazine Het Mannekensblad is disestablished.
- October 28: The final episode of Gustave Verbeek's The Terrors of the Tiny Tads is published.[35]
- December 26: The first issue of the British comics magazine Funny Wonder is published. It's a different version compared with the 1892-1901 version.
- Bruce Bairnsfather's Old Bill makes its debut.
- The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine De Geïllustreerde Kinderwereld is published.[9]
- Clare Briggs's When A Feller Needs A Friend is first published.[36]
- Rube Goldberg starts drawing the first of many Rube Goldberg machines.[37]
- Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst and his manager Moses Koenigsberg establish King Features Syndicate, which brings all comics published by Hearst's papers under one syndication enterprise.[38]
- The final episode of Paul Bransom's The Latest News From Bugville is published.[39]
- Bertie Brown creates The Brownie Boys in Rainbow, which is soon taken over by Freddie Crompton.[40]
1915
- March: Stuart Carothers's Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers is first published. He will die on 4 October of that same year, causing the strip to be taken over by E.C. Segar.
- April 5: Charles Folkard's Teddy Tail makes its debut in The Daily Mail.[41]
- May 23: Antonio Rubino's Italino makes its debut.
- August 16: Merrill Blosser's ' Freckles and His Friends makes its debut. It will run until 28 August 1971.
- Rube Goldberg's Boob McNutt makes its debut.[42]
- The final episode of Leon Searl's Mrs. Timekiller is published.[43]
- Kitazawa Rakuten creates Teino Nukesaku (丁野抜作,, "Nukesaku Teino").
1916
- January 5: George Herriman's Baron Bean makes its debut.[3]
- April: The final issue of the Dutch illustrated satirical weekly De Ware Jacob is published.[44]
- September 9: The final issue of the British comics magazine Ally Sloper's Half Holiday is published. Between 1922 and 1923, 1948 and 1949 and 1976 and 1977 it will be briefly revived.
- December 17: The final episode of Mr. Hubby by William Steinigans is published. [45]
- Rebecca McCann's The Cheerful Cherub makes its debut.
1917
- February 12: Sidney Smith's The Gumps makes its debut. It will run until 17 October 1959.
- March 11: The first issue of the Spanish comics magazine TBO is published.
- October 28: Sergio Tofano's Signor Bonaventura makes its debut in Il Corriere dei Piccoli.
- Robert Moore Brinkerhoff's Little Mary Mixup makes its debut.
- Gene Byrnes' Reg'lar Fellers makes its debut.[46]
- Jan Lunde publishes the comic strip Pappa og Pjokken, one of the first Norwegian comic strips. [47]
1918
- August 21: Edwina Dumm's Cap Stubbs and Tippie makes its debut. It will run until 3 September 1966.
- November 24: Frank King's Gasoline Alley makes its debut.
- December 16: A. E. Hayward's Somebody's Stenog makes its debut.
- December 19: Robert L. Ripley's Ripley's Believe It or Not makes its debut.
- December: Jimmy Murphy's Toots and Casper makes its debut.
- Harry J. Tuthill's The Bungle Family makes its debut.
- Vic Forsythe's Joe Jinks makes its debut. It will run until 1971.[48]
- Frans Masereel publishes the pantomime graphic novel 25 Images de la Passion d'un Homme ("25 Images of a Man's Passion").
- Dutch illustrator David Bueno de Mesquita creates Billie Ritchie en Zijn Ezel, the first Dutch celebrity comic, in this case about film comedian Billie Ritchie.[8]
1919
- January 22: The final episode of George Herriman's Baron Bean is published.[3]
- May 4: Carl Ed's Harold Teen makes its debut.
- June 17: Billy DeBeck's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith makes its debut.
- June 22: The final episode of Sidney Smith's Old Doc Yak is published.
- December 19: Debut of E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre, which marks the debut of Olive Oyl.
- Dora McLaren's Bobby Bear makes his debut in the Daily Herald[disambiguation needed].
- Frans Masereel publishes the pantomime graphic novel Mon Livre d'Heures ("Passionate Journey").
- Wilford Fawcett founds the American comics company Fawcett Publications.
- Bertram Lamb and Austin Bowen Payne's Pip, Squeak and Wilfred makes its debut.
- J.F. Horrabin's Japhet and Happy makes its debut under the title The Adventures of the Noah Family.[49]
- Kristoffer Aamot and Jan Lunde start the comic strip Skomakker Bekk of Tvillingene Hans. [50]
Deaths
1910
- January 23: Angelo Agostini, Brazilian journalist, illustrator and comics artist (As Aventuras de Nhô Quim), dies at the age of 66.[51]
- March 16: Tom Browne, British comics artist and illustrator (Weary Willy and Tired Tim), dies at age 49.[52]
- March 23: Félix Nadar, French photographer, cartoonist, comics artist and caricaturist (Les Aventures Illustrées du Prince pour rire, Vie politique et littéraire de Viperin, journaliste et industriel, Vie publique et privée de mossieu Réac), dies at age 89.[53]
1911
- Specific date unknown: Walter H. Gallaway, American illustrator and comics artist (Citizen Fixit, Absent-Minded Augie), passes away at age 40 or 41.[54]
1912
- May 2: Homer Calvin Davenport, American cartoonist and comics artist (A Venetian Episode - How The Doves Did Davenport), passes away at age 45.[55]
1913
- July 19: Walther Caspari, German illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist, passes away at age 43.[56]
1914
- February 25: John Tenniel, British illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist (Mr. Spoonbill, Peter Piper, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass), passes away at age 93.[57]
- July 21: René-Charles Béliveau, Canadian illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist (La Famille Citrouillard, Le Père Nicodème), passes away at age 42 from TBC.[58]
1915
- March 29: William Wallace Denslow, American illustrator and comics artist (Billy Bounce), dies at age 58.
- June 22: Raymond Crawford Ewer, American comics artist (continued Slim Jim and the Force), dies at age 26 from TBC.[59]
- October 4: Stuart Carothers, American comics artist (Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers), dies at age 22 from defenestration.[60]
1916
- August 21: Auguste Vimar, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 64. [61]
1917
- April 7: Ko Doncker, Dutch comics artist and illustrator (Piet Pelle), dies at age 43.[22]
1918
- January 25: William Steinigans, American comics artist (Pups, Splinters, Mr. Hubby, continued The Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy), passes away at age 39. [62]
- February 28: Robert Carter, American comics artist (Just Little Ones, Coffee and Sinkers), dies at age 44. [63]
- August 3: Albert Hahn Sr., Dutch illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 41.[64]
- December 23: Hans Horina, German comics artist (The Rhinoceros Boys), dies at age 63. [65]
1919
- January 22: Carl Larsson, Swedish illustrator, painter and cartoonist, dies at age 65.[66]
- January 28: Leon Searl, American comics artist and animator (Mrs. Timekiller), dies at age 38.[43]
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