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Events

Year overall

  • The Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute creates Enviro-babies to help promote endangered species awareness

February

March

April

June

July

August

September

  • The British satirical cartoon magazine Punch, which went bankrupt in 1992, is revived. It will run until 2002.[8]
  • Fantastic Four (1961 series) is canceled by Marvel with issue #416.
  • The Avengers (1963 series) is canceled by Marvel with issue #402.
  • Iron Man (1968 series) is canceled by Marvel with issue #332.
  • Newspaper strip A Couple of Guys begins publication

October

December

Specific date unknown

Deaths

January

February

  • February 5: Roberto Raviola, aka Magnus, Italian comics artist (Alan Ford, Kriminal, Satanik, Lo Sconosciuto, Necron) passes away from cancer at age 56.[19]
  • February 6:
    • Boody Rogers, American comics artist (Sparky Watts, Babe), dies at age 91.[20]
    • Franco Tarantola, Italian comics artist, dies at age 53.[21]
  • February 13: Cara Sherman-Tereno, American comics artist (Life With The Vampire) dies of leukemia at the age of 44.[22]
  • February 26: Cork, Dutch cartoonist, (Mr. Cork/Ruitenheer), dies at age 64.[23]

March

April

  • April 12: Bob Zschiesche, American comics artist (Our Folks, Harley Hogg, assisted on Gasoline Alley and Snuffy Smith), dies at age 67 from an aneurysm.[29]
  • April 20: Håven, Swedish cartoonist and comics artist (Gamle Uno), dies at age 74.[30]

May

  • May 7: Piet Worm, Dutch comics artist (De Vrolijke Vaderlandse Geschiedenis, Professor Zegellak), dies at age 95.[31]
  • May 9: Carl Fallberg, American comics writer and artist (Disney comics) dies at age 80.
  • May 26: Francis Paid, Dutch comics artist (Joris Voetangel, Toonder Studios), passes away at age 71.[32]

June

  • June 11: Gin, Spanish comics artist, animator, and illustrator (Nathalie, Denise, Disney comics), passes away at age 65.[33]
  • June 15: Nonkel Fons, Belgian priest, publisher, and comics writer (founder of the comics magazine Zonneland, writer of Rikske en Fikske) dies at age 84.[34]
  • June 19: Curt Swan, American comics artist (worked on Superman), dies at age 76.[35]

July

August

  • August 12: Mark Gruenwald, American comics writer and editor (Marvel Comics) dies at age 43.[38]
  • August 28: P. Hans Frankfurther, Dutch film & TV producer, activist and organizer (founder of Het Stripschap, namegiver to the annual P. Hans Frankfurther comics prize [39]), drowns at age 64, trying to save his son (who also drowns).[40][41]

September

October

December

  • December 2: Don Dohler, American film director, publisher and comics artist (Pro Junior), passes away at age 60.[46]
  • December 7:
  • December 22: Jack Hamm, American comics artist (Drawing the Head and Figure, Cartooning the Head and Figure), dies at age 80.[49]

Specific date unknown

  • Themos Andreopoulos, Greek comics artist (Mikros Serifis) and publisher (the magazine Tam-Tam), dies at age 78 or 79.[50]
  • Stan Clements, Australian comics artist (Tom Dunne, Scientific Detective, Dinny Dare, Jim & Jill, Rays of Destiny, Matt Marcus), dies at age 87.[51]
  • Jim Davis, American animator and cartoonist (Fox and the Crow), dies at age 80 or 81.[52]
  • Zoltán Forrai, Hungarian-Dutch comics artist (Pipa, Miklós), dies at age 94 or 95.[53]
  • Rick Hoover, American animator and comics artist (Disney comics), dies at age 55 or 56.[54]
  • Malcolm Jones III, American comics artist (Sandman), commits suicide at circa age 37.[55]
  • Wang Letian, Chinese comics artist and cartoonist, dies at age 78 or 79.[56]
  • Terry Patrick, British comics artist (worked for DC Thomson), dies at age 66 or 67.[57]
  • Albert Tolf, American comics artist (assisted on Gasoline Alley, cartoons of San Francisco), dies at age 84 or 85.[58]

Conventions

First issues by title

Independent titles

Allegra
Release: August by Image Comics. Writer: Steven T. Seagle. Artist: Scott Clarke
Cyberpunx
Release: March by Image Comics. Writer: Robert Loren Fleming Artist: Ching Lau
Keyhole
Release: June by Millennium Publications. Writers: Dean Haspiel, Josh Neufeld, R. Walker, Chris Cliadakis, Linda Perkins. Art by: Haspiel, Neufeld, and Perkins.
Tim Curry
Release February by Curry Comics.

Marvel Comics

Release August
Release October
Release November
Release November
Release November
Release November

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  8. ^ "Punch – British periodical". Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Albert Uderzo, auteur de " La Galère d'Obélix "". Oct 11, 1996. Retrieved May 21, 2020 – via Le Monde.
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