Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for May 25-31, 2018...

110 years ago May 30, 1908 “Man of a Thousand Voices” Mel Blanc is born. He is the voice artist for such animated characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.

95 years ago May 29, 1923 German painter and caricaturist Adolf Oberländer dies at age 77.

90 years ago May 26, 1928 German writer-artist Franz Roscher is born. He is head of the Rolf Kauka Studios art department and creates the character Plop.

70 years ago May 27, 1948 Walt Disney’s 10th animated feature film, the anthology Melody Time, opens.

70 years ago May 29, 1948 “The Comics … Very Funny!” in Saturday Review of Literature brings Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics arguments to its readers.

65 years ago May 25, 1953 Award-winning writer-artist Stan Sakai is born. He creates rabbit ronin Usagi Yojimbo.

65 years ago May 27, 1953 Animator Louis Scarborough Jr. is born.

55 years ago May 25, 1963 Awesomedude writer-artist Bud Rogers is born. He is an editor and creates a number of Christian comics.

55 years ago May 28, 1963 Caliber and Malibu writer Charles Marshall is born.

25 years ago May 30, 1993 Marjorie Henderson Buell, the cartoonist who created Little Lulu under the pen name Marge, dies of lymphoma at age 88.

25 years ago May 30, 1993 Illustrator, pulp artist, and cartoonist Lyman Anderson dies at age 86. His work appeared in New Fun #1-2, and he drew Inspector Wade for King Features.

15 years ago May 27, 2003 Golden and Silver Age cartoonist Al Hartley dies at age 81. His work included comics features Patsy Walker and Archie and material for Spire Christian Comics.

15 years ago May 30, 2003 Best Animated Feature Oscar-winner Finding Nemo opens, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.