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Year overall

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  • The final episode of Costa Rican artist Fernando Zeledón Guzmán's satirical comic strip La Semana en Serio in the communist magazine Adelante is published.[11]

Deaths

January

  • January 5: John Lehti, American comics artist (Tommy of the Big Top), dies at age 78.[12]
  • January 16: Maurieta Wellman, American illustrator, painter and comics artist (Goofus and Gallant), dies at age 88.[13]
  • January 24: J.H. Koeleman, jr., Dutch illustrator and comics artist (Pinkie Pienter, aka Ronny Roberts), dies at age 64.[14]

February

  • February 11: Michel Mahy, Belgian comics artist (De Spookjes, assisted on Bessy), dies at age 42.[15]
  • February 19: Gradie Knipscheer, Dutch comics artist and musician (Keesje Konijntje), dies at age 76.[16]

March

  • March 29: Sytze Henstra, Dutch illustrator, cartoonist and painter (sports cartoons for De Telegraaf), dies at age 96.[17]

April

  • April 4: Graham Ingels, American comics artist (EC Comics), dies at age 75 from stomach cancer.[18]
  • April 19: Frederik Bramming, Danish animator and comics artist (Frederik, Chas, Motorskatten), dies at age 79.[19]

May

  • May 1: Adolfo Samper, Colombian comics artist (Mojicón, La Hermana de Mojicón, Los Filipicines, Godofredo Cascarrabias, Don Amancise), dies at age 91.[20]
  • May 6: Guido Martina, Italian comics writer (L'Inferno di Topolino), dies at age 85.
  • May 8: Kathleen O'Brien, Australian comics artist (Wanda the War Girl), passes away at age 76.[21]
  • 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.[22]
  • May 29: Hans Brouwer, aka Ipse, Dutch comics artist (Fed en Vetertje), dies at age 74.[23]

June

  • June 3: Vince Colletta, Italian-American comics artist and inker (drew many romance comics and worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics), dies at age 67.[24]
  • June 6: Gianni De Luca, Italian comics artist (Commissario Spada), passes away at age 64.[25]
  • June 10: Jean Bruller, aka Vercors, French novelist, illustrator and comics artist (Le Mariage de Monsieur Lakonik), dies at age 89.[26]
  • June 10: Milorad Dobrić, Yugoslavian (Serbian) comics artist (Pera Pesak, Ljuba Truba, Kurir Fica, Slavuj Gilsa, Inspektor Zuca), dies at age 66.[27]

July

August

September

  • September 4: Bing Coughlin, Canadian advertising illustrator and comics artist (Herbie), dies at age 86.[33]
  • 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.[34]
  • September 18: Vinicio Berti, Italian painter and comics artist (Atomino, Chiodino, Ciondolino, Gian Burrasca), passes away at age 70.[35]
  • September 24:
    • Dom Orejudos, American illustrator and comics artist (Meatman, Startrick), dies at age 58 from AIDS.[36]
    • Dr. Seuss, American children's novelist, illustrator, animator and comics artist (Hejji), dies at age 87.[37]

October

  • October 16: Henricus Kannegieter, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (made various one-shot comics in the 1930s), dies at age 93.[38]
  • October 23: Antonio Canale, Italian comics artist (Amok), passes away at age 76.[39]

November

December

Specific date unknown

  • Albert Edgard Beard, British comics artist and illustrator (The Gaisby Knights), dies at age 88 or 89.[48]
  • Gordon Boshell, British novelist, journalist and comics writer (Garth), dies at age 81 or 82.[49]
  • Jaap Lamberton, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (worked on Panda), passes away at age 45.[50]
  • 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.[51]
  • Alberto Romero, Argentine comics artist (Roberto, un as del Deporte, continued El Vengador), dies at age 75 or 76.[52]
  • Eugen Taru, Romanian illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist ('Barbăcot), dies at age 78.[53]

Conventions

Awards

First issues by title

DC Comics

Limited series

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Dark Horse Comics

Marvel Comics

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Limited series

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Independent

Release: July by Cartoon Books
Release: January by Drawn & Quarterly
Release: April by Drawn & Quarterly
Release: by Rubber Blanket Press

Initial appearance by character name

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Other publishers

References

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  39. ^ "Antonio Canale". lambiek.net.
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