1991 in comics

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Year overall

Publishers Cartoon Books, Comic Zone Productions, Personality Comics, and Boneyard Press all enter the arena; First Comics stops publishing.
Egmont UK bought Fleetway Publications and forced to merge with London Editions to form Fleetway Editions.

January

Checkmate is canceled by DC Comics with issue #33.
El Diablo vol. 2 is canceled by DC with issue #16.
Count Duckula is canceled by the Marvel Comics imprint Star Comics with issue #15.
Alien Legion: On The Edge is canceled with issue #3.
Avengers Spotlight is cancelled with #40.

February

The Amazing Spider-Man #344 - First appearance of Cletus Kasady, who later becomes the super-villain Carnage.
New Mutants #98 - Introduction of Deadpool, Domino, and Gideon. (Marvel Comics)
Power Pack is canceled by Marvel with issue #62.
Heathcliff is cancelled with issue #56.

March

Weapon X begins in Marvel Comics Presents.
With #12, Stalkers is cancelled by Epic Comics.
With #4, The Last American is cancelled by Epic Comics.

April

New Mutants #100, the title's final issue, featuring the debut of X-Force (Marvel Comics).
With #6 Cadillacs & Dinosaurs is cancelled.
With #5, Hollywood Superstars is cancelled.
First issue of Seth's Palookaville

May

May 11: The British girls' comics magazine Mandy merges with Judy. ^[1]
W. B. Park receives the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award.

June

Armageddon 2001 crossover event.

July

Superman: The Man of Steel #1 - debut issue of fourth ongoing Superman title. Written by Louise Simonson and drawn by Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Bob McLeod, Dan Jurgens, Dennis Janke, Jerry Ordway, and Brett Breeding.
Wizard publishes its premiere issue.
Muir Island Saga begins.
With #10, Mighty Mouse is cancelled.
With #80, The Transformers is cancelled by Marvel Comics.
With #25, Yummy Fur moves to Drawn and Quarterly

August

New Gods vol. 3 is canceled by DC with issue #28.
With #19, Cloak & Dagger is cancelled.

September

Alpha Flight #100: "The Final Option, Part Four: Decisions of Trust," written by Fabian Nicieza.
With #2, Impossible Man Summer Vacation Spectacular is cancelled.
With #4, Car Warriors is cancelled.
With #3, Samurai Cat is cancelled.
With #4, Damage Control v3 is cancelled.
Everything's Archie is canceled by Archie Comics with issue #157.

October

Crisis is canceled by Fleetway with issue #63.
With #2, Legion of Night is cancelled.
With #3, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is cancelled.
With #4, Alpha Flight Special is cancelled.
With #6, Sweet XVI is cancelled.
With #10, Foolkiller v1 is cancelled.

November

November 21 – the Marathi comic strip Chintoo is first published.
Alpha Flight #102: Introduction of Wild Child as Weapon Omega.
Maze Agency is canceled by Innovation Comics with issue #23.
With #12, Marvel Comics' Zorro is cancelled.
Daniel Clowes' Art School Confidential is prepublished in Eightball.

December

December 31: The final episode of Marten Toonder's Panda is published. Running for 45 years it was his longest-running series in syndication.^[2]
The Incredible Hulk #388: Jim Wilson revealed to be HIV-positive.

Deaths

April

April 4: Graham Ingels, American comics artist (EC Comics), dies at age 75 from stomach cancer.^[3]

May

May 1: Adolfo Samper, Colombian comics artist (Mojicón, La Hermana de Mojicón, Los Filipicines, Godofredo Cascarrabias, Don Amancise), dies at age 91. ^[4]
May 6: Guido Martina, Italian comics writer (L'Inferno di Topolino), dies at age 85.
May 14: Joy Batchelor, British animator and film director (Halas & Batchelor), dies at age 77.
May 20: Milko Bambič, Slovene illustrator, painter, novelist and comics artist (Zamorček Bu-ci-bu, in English best known as Little Negro Bu-ci-bu), passes away at age 86.
May 27: Ed Dodd, American comics artist (Mark Trail), dies at age 88.^[5]

June

June 6: Gianni De Luca, Italian comics artist (Commissario Spada), passes away at age 64.^[6]
June 10: Jean Bruller, aka Vercors, French novelist, illustrator and comics artist (Le Mariage de Monsieur Lakonik), dies at age 89.^[7]
June 10: Milorad Dobrić, Yugoslavian (Serbian) comics artist (Pera Pesak, Ljuba Truba, Kurir Fica, Slavuj Gilsa, Inspektor Zuca), dies at age 66. ^[8]

July

July 4: Fernand Cheneval, Belgian comics artist and publisher (founder of the magazine Heroïc Albums), passes away at age 73.^[9]
July 4: Art Sansom, American comics artist (The Born Loser), dies at age 70.^[10]
July 6: Nicholas P. Dallis, American comics writer (Rex Morgan, M.D., Judge Parker, Apartment 3-G), passes away at age 89.
July 9: Petr Sadecký, Czech comics artist (Octobriana), passes away.

August

August 18: Rick Griffin, American underground comix artist (Flying Eyeball, Murphy, Man From Utopia) dies at age 47 in a motorcycle accident.^[11]
August 24: Reynold Brown, American poster designer and comics artist (continued Tailspin Tommy), dies at age 73.

September

September 4: Bing Coughlin, Canadian advertising illustrator and comics artist (Herbie), dies at age 86. ^[12]
September 5: Carol Kalish, American comics publisher and vice President of New Product Development at Marvel Comics, dies at age 36 from a brain aneurysm.
September 13: Edmond Good, Canadian illustrator and comics artist (Rex Baxter, Johnny Law, Sky Ranger, assisted on Scorchy Smith, Bruce Gentry - Daredevil of the Skies, Casey Ruggles and Dixie Dugan), passes away at age 81. ^[13]
September 24: Dr. Seuss, American children's novelist, illustrator, animator and comics artist (Hejji), dies at age 87.^[14]

October

October 16: Henricus Kannegieter, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (made various one-shot comics in the 1930s), dies at age 93.^[15]
October 23: Antonio Canale, Italian comics artist (Amok), passes away at age 76.^[16]

November

November 7: Tom of Finland, Finnish comics artist and illustrator, passes away at age 71.^[17]
November 11: Franziska Bilek, German comics artist and illustrator (worked for Simplicissimus), passes away at age 85.^[18]
November 18: Reg Parlett, British comics artist (Ivor Lott and Tony Broke, Mustapha Million), passes away at age 87.^[19]
Specific date unknown: Neville Colvin, British comics artist (Ginger & Co., comic strip based on James Bond, continued Modesty Blaise), dies at age 72. ^[20]

December

December 3: Alex Graham, Scottish comics artist (Fred Basset), dies at age 78.^[21]
December 21: Sheldon Mayer, American comics artist (Sugar and Spike), dies at age 74.^[22]
December 29: Tony Strobl, American animator and comics artist (Disney Comics, Looney Tunes comics, Hanna-Barbera comics), dies at age 76.^[23]

Specific date unknown

Jaap Lamberton, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (worked on Panda), passes away at age 45.^[24]
Charles Popineau, French illustrator and comics artist (worked on the Le Crime ne Paie Pas and Les Amours Célèbres series), dies at age 65 or 66. ^[25]
Eugen Taru, Romanian illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist ('Barbăcot), dies at age 78.^[26]