Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for August 17-23, 2018...
140 years ago August 23, 1878 Artist Lawson Wood is born. He’s known for Gran’pop.
115 years ago August 22, 1903 Jerry Iger is born. He edits the 1936 magazine Wow! What a Magazine! and in 1937, with Will Eisner, he co-founds The Eisner and Iger Studio, packaging material designed for comic books (with output including Sheena). He later presides over the S.M. Iger Studio, starts Phoenix Features, and is art director for Farrell/Ajax-Farrell.
100 years ago August 21, 1918 Edwina Dumm’s Cap Stubbs and Tippie begins.
85 years ago August 17, 1933 Popeye names the foundling introduced in Thimble Theatre July 24: Swee’pea Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom.
85 years ago August 21, 1933 Brick Bradford begins, co-created by Clarence Gray and William Ritt.
80 years ago August 17, 1938 Award-winning artist-writer, historian, and critic Trina Robbins is born. She’s especially known for her pioneering projects involving female creators, starting with It Ain’t Me, Babe Comix.
75 years ago August 20, 1943 Actor Sylvester McCoy is born. He plays the seventh Doctor in the BBC-TV series Doctor Who and, so, stars in comics stories featuring that incarnation of the character.
70 years ago August 20, 1948 Al Capp introduces the Shmoo to Li’l Abner.
50 years ago August 17, 1968 German cartoonist Bruno Paul dies at age 94.