1931 in comics
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Events and publications
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Year overall
January
- January 7: Kho Wang Gie's comic strip Put On makes its debut and will continue for 30 years. [1]
- January 21: After the death of C. W. Kahles the comic strip Hairbreadth Harry is continued by F.O. Alexander. [2] [3]
February
- February 28: The final gag of Harold C. Earnshaw's newspaper comic strip The Pater is published.[4]
April
- April 17: In E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre Popeye first quotes his classic line: "I yam what I yam an' tha's all I yam." [5]
May
- May 3: In E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre a prototypical version of J. Wellington Wimpy makes his debut.[6]
June
- June 26: In E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre spinach is introduced as the source of Popeye's power.
July
- July 8: in a Floyd Gottfredson’s strip, a stray dog eats the Mickey Mouse’s ice-cream; it’s the first appearance of Pluto in the comics.
October
- October 4: Chester Gould's Dick Tracy makes his debut. It naturally marks the debut of the protagonist, Dick Tracy too. [7]
- October 11: In Dick Tracy the villain Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice makes his debut.
- October 12: In Dick Tracy his girlfriend Tess Trueheart makes her debut. [7]
- October 16: In the first narrative of Dick Tracy the father of Tess Trueheart is murdered, which is the first instance of a cold-blooded murder appearing uncensored in a comic strip. [7]
November
- November 27: The final issue of the Spanish comics magazine Pinocho is published. [8]
December
- December 26: The first episode of the biblical text comic Illustrated Sunday School Lesson is published. It will run until 26 February 1973. [9]
Specific date unknown
- Edwina Dumm's Alec the Great makes its debut and will run until 1969. [10]
- Suihō Tagawa's Norakuro makes its debut.
- The final episode of Doings of the Duffs is published. The last artist to draw it is Buford Tune. [11]
- Jean Bruller publishes his comic strip Le Mariage de Monsieur Lakonik. [12]
- Henri Bruneau publishes Zbib et Barnabé. [13]
- William Ferguson publishes This Curious World (1931-1952). [14]
- Louis Diamond publishes Mick. [15]
- Hergé publishes Fred & Mille in Mon Avenir, which will be continued by François Gianolla a year later. [16]
- Guglielmo Guastaveglia creates early Italian versions of Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat. [17]
- Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson's Screen Oddities, a daily comic about the lives of Hollywood stars, is first published. [18]
Deaths
January
- January 21: C. W. Kahles, German-American comics artist (Hairbreadth Harry), dies at age 63 from a heart attack. [2]
May
- May 19: Ralph Barton, American caricaturist, cartoonist and comics artist (worked for The New Yorker), commits suicide at age 39. [19]
- May 28: Guydo, French comics artist, illustrator and novelist, dies at age 62. [20]
June
- June 6: Herbert Bird Tourtel, British journalist, poet and comics writer (Rupert Bear), husband of Mary Tourtel, dies at age 57. [21]
August
- August 25: Marcel Arnac, French novelist, illustrator, comics writer and artist (Les Désopilantes Aventures de Trouillet Détective and other one-shot comics), passes away at age 44 in an accident. [22]
September
- September 15: Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, aka Job, French illustrator, caricaturist and painter, dies at age 72. [23]
References
- ^ "Kho Wang Gie". lambiek.net.
- ^ a b "C. W. Kahles". lambiek.net.
- ^ "F. O. Alexander". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Harold C. Earnshaw". lambiek.net.
- ^ Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R.; Shapiro, Fred R. (12 August 2018). The Yale Book of Quotations. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300107982 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Elzie Crisler Segar". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Chester Gould". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Salvador Bartolozzi". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ "Alfred J. Buescher". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Edwina Dumm's biography,", Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (Ohio State University). Accessed Dec. 4, 2017.
- ^ "Buford Tune". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Jean Bruller". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Henri Bruneau". lambiek.net.
- ^ "William Ferguson". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Louis Diamond". lambiek.net.
- ^ "François Gianolla". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Guglielmo Guastaveglia". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Bud Thompson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ "Ralph Barton". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Guydo". lambiek.net.
- ^ https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/herbert-bird-tourtel
- ^ "Marcel Arnac". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Job". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.