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Ghost Rider, vol. 3., 1990 series, cancelled by Marvel with issue #93
March
March 11: The Flemish newspapers Het Laatste Nieuws and De Nieuwe Gazet change the title of their weekly children comics supplement De Samson en Gert Krant, based on the popular TV show Samson en Gert, into De Plopkrant, based on the children's show Kabouter Plop. [1]
August 24: The Dutch comics magazine Sjosji changes its name again into Sjosji Striparazzi.It will continue until 1999, after which it changes its name into Striparazzi.[2]
September
September 9: Through a long trial Albert Uderzo wins the profits and rights to all his Asterix-related merchandise and albums from previous publisher Dargaud. [3]
January 5: Gustavo Martz Schmidt, Spanish comics artist (ToribioDoctor Cascarrabias, El Doctor Cataplasma, Troglodito, Camelio Majareto, El profesor Tragacanto, Deliranta Rococó, La Pandilla Cu-Cux Plaf, El Sherrif Chiquito, continued Doña Urraca), dies at age 75. [6]
January 7: Eli Bauer, American comics artist and animator (Kermit the Hermit, Norman), dies at age 69. [7]
April 17: E.E. Hibbard, American painter and comics artist (worked on The Flash, The Green Lantern and was the first artist to illustrate a Justice Society story), dies at age 89. [20]
April 23: Enrique Riverón, Cuban-American cartoonist, animator and comics artist, dies at age 95 or 96. [21]
April 26: Bill Crooks, American comics artist (assisted on Captain Easy), dies at age 80. [22]
November 17: Bill Ward, American comics artist (Torchy), dies at age 79.[35]
November 24: Jacques Eggermont, Belgian comics artist and animator (Bicky, Kaatje en Klopje), passes away at age 80.[36]
December
December 10: Ray Goossens, Belgian comics artist (Reynaert de Vos, Ouwe Taaie, Mr. Snor, Tijl Uilenspiegel (sometimes titled Tijl en Lamme), Pimmeke, Snops, Tsjoem) and animator (Musti), dies at age 74.[37]
December 21: André LeBlanc, Haitian-American-Brazilian comics artist, dies at age 77. [38]
December 31: Sándor Gugi, Hungarian comics artist (Talál Tamás, Der Arme Leopold, adaptations of literary novels), dies at age 81. [41]
Specific date unknown: Reginald Ben Davies, British illustrator and comics artist (Jill Crusoe in the Land of the White Queen, Katy of Cedar Creek), passes away at age 90 or 91. [42]
Specific date unknown
Kim Young-hwan, aka Gita Koji, Korean comics artist (Kojubu Samgukji), passes away at age 85 or 86. [43]
October 10: Big Apple Comic Con II (Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York City)
October 10–11: Motor City Comic Con II (Dearborn Civic Center, Dearborn, Michigan)
October 17–18: SuperCon III (Oakland Convention Center, Oakland, California)
November 13–15: The Graphic Novel: a 20th Anniversary Conference on an Emerging Literary and Artistic Medium (the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts) — program book features a brief essay by Will Eisner, "Twentieth Anniversary Reflections on A Contract with God"
November 13–14: Big Apple Comic Con III (Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York City)
^Kannenberg, Gene. "One-of-a-kind: The Ohio State University Festival of Cartoon Art, October 9–10, 1998, A Personal View," Comics Journal (Dec. 1998), pp. 9–14.
