Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for January 13-19, 2017...

135 years ago January 18, 1882 Writer Alan Alexander Milne is born. His Winnie-the-Pooh stories are the basis for many Walt Disney cartoons.

105 years ago January 13, 1912 The Bringing Up Father comic strip begins, written and drawn by George McManus.

95 years ago January 19, 1922 Milton Schiffman is born. He serves as Marvel vice-president of production in the mid-1980s.

85 years ago January 16, 1932 Award-winning editorial cartoonist Jim Berry is born. He launches Berry’s World in 1963 and is Association of American Editorial Cartoonists president from 1981 to 1982.

85 years ago January 19, 1932 Cartoonist, writer, and agent Jack Caprio is born. He works with Johnny Hart on B.C. and Wizard of Id, is cartoon editor for Creator’s Syndicate 1990-1998, and is National Cartoonists Society vice president 1990-1998.

70 years ago January 13, 1947 Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff begins in more than 200 papers.

60 years ago January 17, 1957 Writer and Marvel editor Ann Nocenti is born. She co-creates such characters as Typhoid Mary and Longshot and writes Daredevil for more than four years. For DC, she writes Kid Eternity and Green Arrow.

55 years ago January 15, 1962 Record introduces Iznogoud, co-created by Jean Tabary and René Goscinny.

20 years ago January 19, 1997 Voice artist Adriana Caselotti dies of cancer at age 80. She voiced the character of Disney’s Snow White.

10 years ago January 16, 2007 Well-known comics fan Leah Adezio dies of liver and kidney failure at age 46.