Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for December 15-21, 2017...

95 years ago December 21, 1922 Inventor and ventriloquist Paul Winchell is born. His voice artistry includes Disney’s Tigger and The Smurfs’ Gargamel.

80 years ago December 21, 1937 Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opens in a limited event. (Its general release will come February 4, 1938, but promotion is already under way.)

75 years ago December 19, 1942 Addy-award-winning cartoonist Ken Alvine is born.

65 years ago December 15, 1952 Mojo Pop Comics Group writer-artist Ed Quinby is born.

65 years ago December 17, 1952 Ronn Sutton is born. The courtroom artist also draws Claypool’s Elvira.

65 years ago December 18, 1952 Cartoonist Bill Neville is born.

65 years ago December 19, 1952 Writer Peter Gillis is born. He’s best known for work for Marvel and First Comics. He pioneers the digitally drawn Shatter and adapts The Last Unicorn for IDW.

65 years ago December 20, 1952 Writer-artist Mack White is born.

60 years ago December 15, 1957 Artist Steven Bove is born.

55 years ago December 19, 1962 Mini-comics publisher Eric Hess is born.

35 years ago December 20, 1982 Young Magazine begins Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo.

15 years ago December 18, 2002 Cartoonist Mic Delinx dies at age 72. He’s best known for La Jungle en Folie (co-created with Christian Godard).