Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for January 19-25, 2018...

135 years ago January 23, 1883 Artist, engraver, and illustrator Paul Gustave Doré dies at age 51.

95 years ago January 19, 1923 Voice artist Bob McFadden is born. His characters include Milton the Monster.

95 years ago January 20, 1923 John McLusky is born. He’s the first artist of Ian Fleming’s James Bond comic strip.

90 years ago January 20, 1928 Award-winning Philippine cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Mauro Malang Santos is born.

80 years ago January 25, 1938 Shotaro Ishinomori is born. The award-winning manga and anime artist creates such series as Cyborg 009, Super Sentai, and Kamen Rider. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most comics published by one creator.

70 years ago January 19, 1948 Writer-artist Joe Staton is born. The E-Man co-creator (with Nicola Cuti) is the art editor for First Comics, provides much art for DC, and teams with Mike Curtis on Dick Tracy.

65 years ago January 25, 1953 Writer John Lustig is born. He’s especially known for work on Duck stories and for re-scripting romance comics panels (collected in Last Kiss).

60 years ago January 21, 1958 Writer-artist Bill Riling is born. His work includes production on Disney comics.

60 years ago January 22, 1958 Editor-writer Howard Mackie is born. His work includes Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, X-Factor, and The Ravagers.

60 years ago January 23, 1958 Bulgarian political cartoonist Ilia Beshkov dies at age 56.

50 years ago January 20, 1968 Comics marketer, reporter, business analyst, and editor Marc Patten is born.

45 years ago January 25, 1973 Award-winning writer, retailer (co-owner of Earth-2 Comics), and film and TV producer Geoff Johns is born. He’s named DC Comics Chief Creative Officer in 2010.

30 years ago January 25, 1988 Movie star Colleen Moore dies of cancer, apparently at age 88 (although she’d said she was born in 1902). She played Ella Cinders in the film adaptation of the strip by Bill Conselman and Charles Plumb.

25 years ago January 20, 1993 Cartoonist Shunji Sonoyama dies at age 57. He created Hajime Ningen Gyatoruzu and Hana no Kakaricho.

25 years ago January 23, 1993 Wendy and Richard Pini launch the Elfquest ’93 tour at the Great Eastern Convention in New York City.

15 years ago January 20, 2003 Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld dies at age 99.

15 years ago January 22, 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning political and World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin dies of complications of Alzheimer’s disease and scalding at age 81.

10 years ago January 19, 2008 Belgian artist Rik Clément dies at age 87. His best known and longest series was Dees Dubbel.