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1922 Birthday of Bill Gaines (Mad Magazine) |
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1904 Birthday of Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
1952 Birthday of Mark Evanier (DNAgents) |
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1884 Birthday of Fontaine Fox (Toonerville Folks)
1933 First appearance of Red Barry (Will Gould)
1946 End of Male Call (Milton Caniff)
1952 First appearance of Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts (Charles
Schulz) |
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1904 First appearance of Flip in Little Nemo (Winsor McCay)
1946 First appearance of Rip Kirby (Alex Raymond) |
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1934 First appearance of Don Winslow of the Navy (Frank
Martinek) |
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1917 Birthday of Will Eisner (The Spirit, Sheena) |
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7
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1934 Birthday of Gray Morrow (Buck Rogers, Tarzan, etc.) |
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8
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1972 "Tales From the Crypt" movie, based on the 1950s EC
comic book, opens |
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1935 Last Secret Agent X-9 written by Dashiell Hammett |
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1935 First appearance of Smokey Stover (Bill Holman)
1996 Museum of Cartoon Art opens in Boca Raton, FL |
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1900 First appearance of Happy Hooligan (Frederick Burr
Opper)
1910 First appearance of Desperate Desmond (Harry Hershfield)
1968 First appearance of Boner's Ark (Addison, aka Mort Walker) |
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1951 First appearance of Dennis the Menace (Hank Ketcham) |
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1921 Birthday of Al Jaffee (Mad Magazine)
1951 Beetle Bailey joins the army (Mort Walker) |
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1920 Birthday of Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace)
1947 Birthday of Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean, John Darling,
Crankshaft) |
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1922 Sidney Smith (The Gumps) becomes the first cartoonist
to sign a million-dollar contract
1923 First appearance of Skippy (Percy Crosby)
1931 First Tarzan Sunday strip (Rex Maxon) |
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1958 Birthday of Kate Worley (Omaha the Cat Dancer) |
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1930 First appearance of Scorchy Smith (John Terry)
1985 First appearance of Luann (Greg Evans) |
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1963 First appearance of Trudy (Jerry Marcus) |
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1932 First appearance of Henry (Carl Anderson)
1984 First appearance of On the Fastrack (Bill Holbrook) |
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1897 First appearance of Yellow Kid magazine from Street
& Smith (R.F. Outcault) |
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1902 Birthday of Al Smith (Mutt and Jeff) |
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1915 Birthday of Bud Sagendorf (Popeye)
1919 Birthday of Bernard Krigstein (EC)
1929 Birthday of Mort Drucker (Mad Magazine) |
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1992 Pogo revived (Carolyn and Peter Kelly)
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1899 Birthday of Allen Saunders (Mary Worth)
1911 Birthday of Joseph Barbera (Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones,
Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound) |
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1979 First appearance of John Darling (Tom Batiuk & Tom
Armstrong) |
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1900 First appearance of Happy Hooligan (Frederick Burr
Opper)
1937 Statue of Popeye dedicated in Crystal City, Texas
1950 Birthday of Brian Bolland (Judge Dredd, Camelot 3000,
The Killing Joke) |
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1901 Birthday of Carl Barks (Donald Duck)
1908 First appearance of Little Jeff in Mr. A. Mutt (Bud Fisher) |
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1924 Birthday of Jack Elrod (Mark Trail, Winky Ryatt)
1952 Wedding of Li'l Abner Yokum & Daisy Mae Scraggs (Al Capp)
1955 Birthday of Mark Silvestri (X-Men, Cyberforce)
1966 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" opened on
Broadway |
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1920 Birthday of Tex Blaisdell (Little Orphan Annie)
1992 First appearance of Bound and Gagged (Dana Summers)
1993 Charlie Brown wins his first baseball game (Peanuts)
(Charles Schulz)
1997 First appearance of Liberty Meadows (Frank Cho) |
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1931 First appearance of Wimpy in Thimble Theatre (Elzie
Segar)
1973 Wedding of Smilin' Jack Jr. to Sizzle (Zack Mosley) |
